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Thread: The tool also showed information on pages targetting Americans
In the few hours the tool was active, I didn't find any massive page claiming to be American that wasn't run from the US (though of course they are out there)
"American Police Supporters" (20,000 followers) is run from Germany and Serbia facebook.com/pg/AmericansPo…
"Veterans Today Network" run from Mexico, according to Facebook
I checked dozens of massive Trump supporters' pages, some with hundreds of thousands of followers, all were listed as being run by people located in the US (more about what that means later). But this page with 16,000 followers is run from Kosovo facebook.com/2020Trump.Pres…
FB hasn't told us how they determine location for this, it looks like the tool appeared today as a test. But there would be multiple ways a profile running a page could try mask its true location. Could lie in FB bio + use VPN
"Proud Deplorables" -- again small following of 3,000 -- run from Israel, according to Facebook facebook.com/TheProudDeplor…
"Prosecute Obama" previously "Impeach Obama" managed from the US and Pakistan
Hillary Clinton in 2020 -- managed from United States, Hungary and "2 other countries"
This Cherokee Nation page that claims it's based in Texas is run from Kosovo. it lists a US number on the page. I called it, it doesn't work. facebook.com/cherokeenation…
.@CraigSilverman wrote about how many Native American pages were run from Kosovo back in 2016 buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman…
This massive page "Native American Proud" with more than 300,000 followers doesn't explicitly claim it's run from the US. Which is good, because it's run from Vietnam, according to Facebook. facebook.com/pg/native.amer…
.@CraigSilverman and @JaneLytv also did some digging on some other pages today. buzzfeed.com/janelytvynenko…
h/t to @gavinsblog who spotted the new function this AM, and some other friends in Ireland who helped out checking some of this stuff. Facebook is testing its new transparency tools in Ireland ahead of the country's referendum on abortion in two weeks
Facebook says it was a mistake
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