Chumps Got Played As Largest Black Lives Matter Facebook Page Was a SCAM

On the day when Facebook kingpin Mark Zuckerberg will give his testimony before Congress, yet another embarrassing report of how easily that the world’s most powerful social media network was manipulated and users were punked has come out.

This time it is not a pro-Trump third party like Cambridge Analytica or even those damned Ruskies but rather a white guy in Australia who attempted to cut himself a nice slab of American’s racial grievance industry pie by setting up a bogus Black Lives Matter page on Facebook and then siphoning off money for himself.

According to reports, the page had over 700,000 followers at its peak but was shut down after domestic representatives of the real BLM began to suspect that something was amiss and reported the page to the anti-conservative corporation which after some investigation, acknowledged that it was a fraud and removed it.

The crackerjack investigative team at CNN were able to take off their tinfoil hats and stop sniffing the nasty-ass panties of blow job queen Stormy Daniels for long enough to break the news that all of those chumps who had been frequenting the page set up by Aussie union official Ian MacKay who also owned over 100 racially-tinged web domain names including blacklivesnews.com, blackkillingsmatter.com and backfists.com.

Largest ‘Black Lives Matter’ Page A Fake… https://t.co/RxSTOWhZby

— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) April 9, 2018

Via CNN “The biggest Black Lives Matter page on Facebook is fake”:

For at least a year, the biggest page on Facebook purporting to be part of the Black Lives Matter movement was a scam with ties to a middle-aged white man in Australia, a review of the page and associated accounts and websites conducted by CNN shows.
The page, titled simply “Black Lives Matter,” had almost 700,000 followers on Facebook, more than twice as many as the official Black Lives Matter page. It was tied to online fundraisers that brought in at least $100,000 that supposedly went to Black Lives Matter causes in the U.S. At least some of the money, however, was transferred to Australian bank accounts, CNN has learned.

Fundraising campaigns associated with the Facebook page were suspended by PayPal and Patreon after CNN contacted each of the companies for comment. Donorbox and Classy had already removed the campaigns.

The discovery raises new questions about the integrity of Facebook’s platform and the content hosted there. In the run-up to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before Congress this week, Facebook has announced plans to make the people running large pages verify their identity and location. But it’s not clear that the change would affect this page: Facebook has not said what information about page owners it will disclose to the public — and, presented with CNN’s findings, Facebook initially said the page didn’t violate its “Community Standards.”

Additional details via The Guardian:

A high-ranking Australian union official has been suspended amid reports he ran a fake Black Lives Matter Facebook page that solicited donations from the movement’s supporters.

CNN reports that Ian MacKay – an official with the National Union of Workers – helped set up and run a Facebook page called Black Lives Matter as well as other domain names linked to black rights.

The page, which was removed by Facebook after CNN’s queries, had almost 700,000 followers – more than double the official Black Lives Matter page.

MacKay – who is white – did not respond to calls or emails but denied running the page when contacted by CNN.

A statement given to the Guardian by the NUW’s national secretary, Tim Kennedy, said the union had launched an investigation into the claims made in the CNN report.

He said the union had suspended “the relevant officials pending the outcome of an investigation”.

Two of the frontrunners for the 2020 Democrat presidential nomination who have both staked out their claim as social justice warriors and rightful heirs to the legacy of Barack Obama while have their chance to grill Mr. Zuckerberg when he appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee today but somehow I am skeptical that Kamala Harris or Cory Booker will even see fit to mention the phony BLM page. Not that Zuck would tell the truth anyway, he won’t be under oath.