Monetising hate: covert enterprise co-opts far-right Facebook pages to churn out anti-Islamic posts

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Exclusive: Israel-based group has gained access to at least 21 pages, using them to launch coordinated false stories to their 1 million followers around the world

A mysterious group has used some of Facebook’s largest far-right pages to create a commercial enterprise that harvests anti-Islamic hate for profit and influences politics across the globe, a Guardian investigation has revealed.

 

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does this: those who challenge the racism and Islamophobia are banned while the perpetrators are not sanctioned. The site’s income is selling advertising space. So the condoning of right-wing extremism is down to cynicism or incompetence or both

I am dropping my FB page entirely.

Several months ago I noticed several Twitter users all posting the same link to a website which had a headline calling for the death of Ilhan Omar as well as many other abusive articles about her. I alerted the domain host Name Cheap, but the site skycracker(dot)com is still up.

Answer me this, are you supportive of the removal of leftist terrorists like Antifa, and open and enthusiastic anti-semites like RashidaTlaib, and IlhanMN? Your definition of “hate” only includes ideas that differ from your own. DoubleStandards

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You mean report the news, because that is all they need to do.

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