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Sep 17, 2020 • 6 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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1/ NEW from me via @snopes: The Macedonian-run Facebook group Kayleigh McEnany OFFICIAL had 456,000+ members.

FB told us it "used compromised accounts to mislead people about its origin."

More uncovered pages appear in tweet 3 in this thread.

snopes.com/news/2020/09/1…
2/ Right now, 3 of the accounts that managed the group are still available on Facebook. One of them is named Elisabeth Kim, but features a profile photo of a woman with a name tag that says "Marti Jordan."

Kayleigh McEnany OFFICIAL was removed just weeks ahead of the election.
3/ Snopes also found these pages that were managed from Macedonia:

- Police and LEOs (192k likes): archive.vn/HTD2J#selectio…
- First Lady of the United States (2k likes): archive.vn/8edU2
- MAGA (30k members): archive.vn/ALgeB

The "First Lady" page is still active.
4/ Love Native Americans (118k likes) was run from Macedonia, and had survived since June 2016. It was removed earlier this year: archive.is/LIsU2.

It featured artwork of Native Americans, as well as memes with U.S. law enforcement, American nostalgia, and small cabins.
5/ As for Kayleigh McEnany OFFICIAL, Macedonian efforts to publish right-wing American political content were well-documented following the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

4 years later, it still managed to find a home and an audience on @Facebook.

snopes.com/news/2020/09/1…
6/ It is worth noting that the Macedonian admin for Kayleigh McEnany OFFICIAL was looking for what appeared to be an American moderator, without disclosing that he was in Macedonia.

Often moderators in these groups appear perhaps more legitimate than the admins, and this is why.

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A brand new parody Twitter account that paid for verification and chose the display name of ESPN's Adam Schefter tweeted Josh McDaniels was fired. The credible-looking tweet received nearly 10,000 engagements. Twitter suspended the account after two hours. snopes.com/fact-check/jos…
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Nov 8, 2022
THREAD: Here are the stories I've published so far for @snopes on #ElectionDay.

First, here are data+sources for each election year going back to 2000 showing all votes did NOT used to be counted by election night. Share with conspiracy-prone friends. snopes.com/fact-check/ele…
Second, a false rumor about Sharpie pens and Illinois ballots was going around on Twitter this morning.

The Illinois State Board of Elections (@illinoissbe) tweeted the facts: "Sharpies are an approved ballot marking device for many voting systems." snopes.com/fact-check/sha…
Third, here are the facts about today's Maricopa County vote-tabulation machine issues, which a spokesperson referred to as "minor."

PLUS: Here's how people in the Arizona county can track their ballot online and confirm that their vote was counted. snopes.com/news/2022/11/0…
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Apr 15, 2022
1/ Facebook and @Meta continue to allow false and potentially defamatory posts about @Jeopardy host @missmayim to be promoted as paid ads on its platform, despite the fact that we notified the company last week. The company is profiting off of these ads. snopes.com/news/2022/04/0…
2/ All of the ads use the same text. Despite this, Meta, which brings in billions in revenue every quarter, is seemingly unable or unwilling to set something up to automatically flag ads that use these words: "Jeopardy fans are up in arms over the allegations pending against..."
3/ We've reported on the matter twice. The false ads lead to CBD scams. Here's our first story. snopes.com/fact-check/may…
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Nov 20, 2021
1/ A brief thread. In the aftermath of the Rittenhouse verdict, meet "Renata Trump," a Facebook account with the username "renata.lewandowski.3." The account is an admin in the group named AMERICA NEEDS PRESIDENT TRUMP. The group's founder is deceased. snopes.com/news/2021/11/1…
2/ In another Facebook group named James Woods for Gov of California, a user named Drastic Bombastic posted "USA!" about the acquittal. The same account previously published election disinformation and likes a majority of Russian-language pages in Belarus. snopes.com/news/2021/11/1…
3/ Over in the Phillippines, three accounts run the Facebook pages named I Support Law Enforcement Officers and I Support The 2nd Amendment. The pages published posts that said "Not Guilty!" and linked to a sketchy website named Daily News Blitz. snopes.com/news/2021/11/1…
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Oct 4, 2021
(THREAD) YouTube has removed multiple verified channels named “Fox News” and “Fox News Alert” following an Oct. 1 Snopes investigation that found they were pumping out disinformation to millions of subscribers. These channels were not managed by Fox News. snopes.com/news/2021/10/0…
1/ All of the YouTube channels posted long video clips from Fox News Channel. However, the thumbnails were altered to make it look like U.S. President Joe Biden was either dying or going to jail and that former U.S. President Donald Trump was coming back. snopes.com/news/2021/10/0…
2/ This was similar to a debunked QAnon conspiracy theory that led to federal authorities worrying of potential violence from Trump supporters when such disinformation inevitably failed to come true.

Here’s what some of the altered thumbnails looked like. snopes.com/news/2021/10/0…
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Oct 3, 2021
(THREAD) Ahead of the #60Minutes interview with the Facebook whistleblower, know this:

We contacted Facebook multiple times ahead of Jan. 6 to warn about violent rhetoric in a group with members that planned on taking matters into their own hands. snopes.com/news/2021/02/1…
1/ Facebook did not respond to us, despite multiple attempts to reach the company for comment.

We contacted the company warning them of the violent rhetoric and organizing that we saw, and we sent our emails in the days both before and after Nov. 3, which was Election Day.
2/ The New York Times later reported that a man named Keith Lee “spent the morning of Jan. 6 casing the entrances to the Capitol.” During the riots, he carried a bullhorn. “Mr. Lee called out for the mob to rush in, until his voice echoed from the dome of the Rotunda.”
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