Exclusive: Russians Impersonated Real American Muslims to Stir Chaos on Facebook and Instagram
Source: Daily Beast
The Facebook group United Muslims of America was neither united, Muslim, nor American.
Instead, sources familiar with the group tell The Daily Beast, it was an imposter account on the worlds largest social network thats been traced back to the Russian government.
Using the account as a front to reach American Muslims and their allies, the Russians pushed memes that claimed Hillary Clinton admitted the U.S. created, funded and armed al-Qaeda and the so-called Islamic State; claimed that John McCain was ISIS true founder; whitewashed blood-drenched dictator Moammar Gadhafi and praised him for not having a Rothschild-owned central bank; and falsely alleged Osama bin Laden was a CIA agent.
Sources confirmed that the imposter account bought Facebook advertisements to reach its target audience. It promoted political rallies aimed at Muslim audiences. And it used the Twitter account muslims_in_usa and the Instagram account muslim_voice to pass along inflammatory memes under cover of the UMA. The Twitter account has been suspended, and the account on Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, was shuttered at around the same time as the Facebook page.
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Collusion runs deep...
riversedge
(69,708 posts)Gothmog
(143,998 posts)OliverQ
(3,363 posts)The depth this goes, and the amount of lies spread about Clinton that absolutely hurt her campaign is insane. She got such a raw deal and it's completely unfair.
Trump is NOT legitimate.
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Rollo
(2,559 posts)...were claiming about Hillary. I found it unbelievable but these people, some of whom appeared to be half-way intelligent, were convinced it was all true.
For some years I've observed how technology can drive design. Now it appears to have derailed our democracy.
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)Rollo
(2,559 posts)He must have a big grin on his face when he contemplates the chaos the Trump presidency has caused...