This is a very important story.— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) September 23, 2019
One caveat I would add here: many Ukraine-based troll-style operations are commercial enterprises of oligarchs or others, and not necessarily Ukrainian-funded.
Lots of state-level actors will use these commercial ops to mask activities. https://t.co/YqAtpu4OAD
3. "I Love America" is part of a complex network of Ukrainian-run Facebook pages that seek to amass large audiences and then funnel them to rabidly pro-Trump pages.— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 23, 2019
These include pages featuring cute dogs and Jesushttps://t.co/0MRNxVJbUJ pic.twitter.com/1CSewIkgnh
5. Facebook tells me this network of Ukrainians pretending to be American, pushing pro-Trump propaganda DOESN'T VIOLATE ITS POLICIES— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 23, 2019
The company won't hold itself accountable.
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7. The content on these more explicitly pro-Trump pages is incendiary and frequently false.— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 23, 2019
For example one of the pages includes a meme stating Hillary Clinton sold access to her server to foreign governments https://t.co/0MRNxVJbUJ pic.twitter.com/nMkUnphlza
UPDATE: 8 hours after this report was published, Facebook took "I Love America" and all the other pages in this piece down.
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