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1. The "Police Lives Matter" Facebook page accumulated 170K fans

The page purported to be run by U.S. police officers, with cops posting about the "first dayshift of my career with a K9"

It was actually run from Kosovo

popular.info/p/huge-police-…
2. The page trafficked in misinformation about U.S. cops.

For example, on August 19, 2019, the page claimed that Deputy Farrah Turner had just died from gunshot wounds

Turner actually died 10 months earlier, in October 2018

popular.info/p/huge-police-…
3. "Police Lives Matter" was part of a network of Facebook pages run from Kosovo that sought to exploit the right-wing backlash against the Black Lives Matter movement w/names like "I Support The Police US not Criminals"

It included pro-Trump memes.

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4. The reach of this network was extraordinary. Over the last 30 days, the "Police Lives Matter" page had more reach on Facebook than Vox, Bloomberg, BuzzFeed News, and Quartz COMBINED

popular.info/p/huge-police-…
5. Hours after I contacted Facebook about the Kosovo network, Facebook took the entire network down, citing unspecified "violations."

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6. This is the second major misinformation network on Facebook removed after reporting in popular.info in the last week

I also identified a massive Ukrainian network pushing pro-Trump propaganda.

The two networks used some of the same memes

popular.info/p/huge-police-…
To bolster the audience of its police pages, the Kosovan network also ran several pages that focused on cute animals, including "Happy Animal Club" and "3-Minute Animal Stories."

(The Ukranian network did the same thing)

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Good morning.

The President of the United States is obstructing Congress' impeachment inquiry

That itself is an impeachable offense.

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Congress BTW is not powerless here. It has INHERENT CONTEMPT authority. It can literally arrest and detain these witnesses until they cooperate.

The Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed that's within Congress' authority

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Elizabeth Warren: U.S. Senator, presidential candidate, popular.info reader
Warren also references my report from last Thursday on Facebook quietly changing the language of its ad policy to allow Trump and other political candidates to lie

You can read that one here: popular.info/p/facebook-say…

Warren is putting together the pieces.

Zuckerberg says it would “suck” if Warren got elected and simultaneously created a system that allows Facebook to profit by broadcasting Trump’s lies about Warren and other Democrats to millions of people
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Judd Legum
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1. Last Thursday, I reported that Facebook had made a change to the language in its advertising policy and now politicians like Trump were explicitly able to LIE in Facebook ads.

Today, in a new Facebook ad, Trump is taking full advantage of it.

popular.info/p/facebook-say…
2. The Facebook ad released today is a 2 minute video which is almost entirely premised on the idea that Trump has released a TRANSCRIPT of his call with the Ukrainian president.

That is a lie.

Trump has not released a transcript.
3. How do I know its a lie?

THE DOCUMENT RELEASED BY THE WHITE HOUSE SUMMARIZING HIS CALL WITH THE UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT SAYS ITS NOT A TRANSCRIPT

Facebook, however, will accept money to spread false information to its users
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