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1. There was a REMARKABLE exchange on a press call with Mark Zuckerberg yesterday that got lost in the shuffle.

In his speech last Thursday, Zuckerberg invoked the legacy of MLK Jr. to defend how Facebook operates

This didn't go over well with King's daughter, @BerniceKing
@BerniceKing 2. @BerniceKing noted that disinformation campaigns by politicians (which Facebook now permits and profits from) created the conditions that led to her father's assassination

@BerniceKing 3. On the press call, Zuckerberg was asked about @BerniceKing's comments.

Zuckerberg said that he believed that @BerniceKing's analysis about her father's assassination was correct but we shouldn't JUST FOCUS ON THE DOWNSIDE

Unbelievable.
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1. UPDATE: So in response to my report that The Daily Wire is gaming Facebook with a network of 14 large pages Facebook released a new statement.

Facebook says these are "real pages run by real people"

Facebook is wrong and I have receipts

popular.info/p/keeping-it-r…
2. I'm particularly interested in the claim by Facebook that these pages are run by "real people" and not The Daily Wire.

I have evidence that at least two of the pages in the network are OWNED BY THE DAILY WIRE

popular.info/p/keeping-it-r…
3. One page in the network is The Right News. It is associated with a website called therightnews.net.

Here is the record showing that therightnews.net was aquired by Forward Publishing, the parent company of the Daily Wire on 4/29/16

popular.info/p/keeping-it-r…
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1. This is absolutely ludicrous. The lengths to which Facebook is going to justify The Daily Wire's obvious violations of their rules is astounding.

Facebook is banking on people not caring but I think people will care.

Let's review.

popular.info/p/facebook-all…
2. Facebook has a policy against "inauthentic coordinated behavior" I identified 14 large Facebook pages that pretend to be independent but ONLY POST DAILY WIRE CONTENT

AND THEY ALL POST THE SAME DAILY WIRE CONTENT, W/THE SAME TEXT, AT THE EXACT SAME TIME popular.info/p/facebook-all…
3. Facebook is now claiming that these are "real pages" run by "real people." If these pages are real, how is anything on Facebook considered inauthentic?

It's an OBVIOUS a ploy to game the Facebook algorithm and boost Daily Wire content

popular.info/p/facebook-all…
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1. How is The Daily Wire, the toxic right-wing site founded by pundit Ben Shapiro, more successful on Facebook than any other major publication?

It breaks the rules.

And Facebook is going to continue to let them do it.

popular.info/p/facebook-all…
2. A popular.info investigation found a clandestine network of 14 large Facebook pages that exclusively promote content from The Daily Wire

They promote same content, at the same time, w/the same text

Collectively they have 8 million+ fans

popular.info/p/facebook-all…
3. Facebook's rules explicitly prohibit "coordinated inauthentic behavior" which it defines as "groups of accounts and Pages working together to mislead people about who they are and what they’re doing."

That's exactly what's happening here

popular.info/p/facebook-all…
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