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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

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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

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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

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4. Prior to 4/29/16, The Right News Facebook page promoted content from therightnews.net and other websites owned by the same person.

After 4/29/16 The Right News Facebook page started exclusively promoting The Daily Wire

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5. I am not a $500 billion corporation but I am a person who cares about facts and spent the time to actually research the question of who owns these pages

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6. Another page that Facebook is claims is run by "real people" is Conservative News. It's associated with a website called conservativenews.com. That page is also owned by Forward Publishing

How do I know?

It's in the footer of its defunct website

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7. None of this research should be necessary because the behavior of the pages made it OBVIOUS they were controlled by The Daily Wire

Yesterday, all the pages posted the same link w/i 4 seconds

But Facebook insisted they were "real people"

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8. Why does all this even matter.

These exploit Facebook's algorithm that rewards links shared from multiple accounts

The proof is in the pudding. The Daily Wire does way better on Facebook than other publishers

It's not close

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9. The Daily Wire exploits Facebook to spread messages like gender equality is a myth & LGBTQ people don't want to be accepted by society & there's nothing to do about climate change

In return, Ben Shapiro was invited to Zuckerberg's house for dinner

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1. Yesterday, the Trump campaign was caught defrauding thousands of its own supporters.

They enticed people to donate with the promise of a breakfast w/Trump.

There was no breakfast w/Trump.

The vast majority of news outlets are ignoring this story.

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2. This is likely the tip of the iceberg. The campaign admitted one contest for a meal with Trump was a fraud

There are 14 other similar contests & no evidence that the meals occurred

This is potentially a multi-million fraud by the president's campaign

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3. IMO, there is too much coverage of what Trump and his campaign is SAYING and not enough investigation into what they are DOING.

I think we need more independent accountability journalism.

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UPDATE: A heavily-promoted contest to win breakfast with President Trump in New York City on September 26 was a fraud.

The "winner" of the contest did not have breakfast in Trump.

Instead, she was invited to a breakfast that Trump did not attend

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2. The promise of breakfast with Trump was used in hundreds of Facebook ads to entice supporters to donate money.

"I really want to discuss our Campaign Strategy for the rest of the year with you over breakfast," Trump said in a Facebook ad in September

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3. The fraud was exposed after an investigation in popular.info questioning whether anyone won campaign contests promising a meal with Trump

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UPDATE: The Trump campaign is ADMITTING THE MEAL CONTESTS ARE FRAUDS

It's promoting a Daily Caller story about a woman who won a breakfast w/Trump and Trump NEVER SHOWED UP

(The other "winner" was for a rally in 2017)

Trump has held 15 contests for MEALS.
This is how Trump advertised the breakfast in New York City. His campaign now admits he never showed up to this breakfast.

He is inducing people to donate money based on a false promise. It's fraud.

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This is the key part of the Daily Caller article where they admit the whole thing was a fraud.
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