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Insane how long this stuff stayed up after work by Ben, Brandy, Snopes and others clearly showed how inauthentic it was.
Let’s note this is being announced the Friday before Christmas when these stories have been out for a long time.

Also @ExploitingNiche deserves credit for her great AI faces analysis!
Here’s an idea: Facebook should have to pay a bug bounty to NBC News, Snopes, and Lead Stoties in the amount it accepted in ads from Epoch Times.
Facebook didn’t credit @snopes in its takedown announcement, even though the site did the most work to uncover the inauthentic BL network back in Oct. FB wouldn’t even respond to emails, Snopes says. nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…
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Since 2004, more than 2,000 newspapers have closed in the United States. But there’s a network of local websites in Albany, Edmonton and elsewhere that are doing huge pageviews and revenue. Their secret?

Fake just about everything: buzzfeednews.com/article/craigs…
Here’s the Albany Daily News. It’s never been updated since launch, has broken drop down menus, and a bunch of stale rewrites on the homepage. Behind that it’s filled with old celebrity content. It got almost 10 million page views in August, almost 100% from mobile.
This is City of Edmonton News. Also never gets updated, is filled with old and irrelevant content, and the links to its social accounts are blank. It gets more traffic than the Edmonton Sun or Edmonton Journal. Yet Over 60% of its audience comes from the US?
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THREAD: You’ve probably seen ads like these on Facebook or elsewhere online. A celeb's in big trouble! It’s a lie, and all part of a massive scam that's stolen billions. I investigated a company that did this on a global scale, and the details are crazy: buzzfeednews.com/article/craigs…
The company is called Ads Inc and has an office in San Diego. Since 2016 it spent more than $50 MILLION placing ads like those on Facebook. It weaponized Facebook's ad targeting to reach ppl all over the world, and trick them into expensive subscriptions. Here's how:
The evil genius of Ads Inc was that it evaded detection in part by using thousands of different Facebook accounts to place ads. And it got these by paying average Americans $15 a month to "rent" their FB accounts. More here: buzzfeednews.com/article/craigs…
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Fake photos, stolen content, false stories: We found networks of “Canadian” websites and Facebook pages that are actually run by people in Kosovo, Romania and elsewhere: buzzfeednews.com/article/craigs… #cdnpoli #cdnmedia
These FB pages are run by people in Kosovo and the UK. They recently spread a false story about Toronto’s drinking water being contaminated. We also found a page called “Live in Canada” with more than 2.5 million likes that's managed by two accounts in Israel.
After we contacted the “Toronto, Ontario News” page to ask about its false content and being based in Kosovo, they altered the Page Transparency info shown on FB to remove the Kosovo disclosure. This is the 1st time we’ve seen this done. FB said it is investigating.
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