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Facebook admits it promoted fake Vegas massacre stories
New York Post ^ | October 2, 2017 | y Joe Tacopino

Posted on 10/02/2017 5:32:16 PM PDT by sparklite2

Facebook admitted Monday that its system automatically promoted stories that falsely identified the shooter in the Las Vegas massacre.

The social network said links from Web sites such as “The Gateway Pundit” and others were posted and spread across their site Sunday night.

The stories claimed that the shooter was an “anti-Trump” Democrat and displayed pictures of a man who is not identified as a suspect.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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KEYWORDS: facebook; fakebook; lasvegasmassacre; mandalaybaymassacre
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Stay classy, Gateway Pundit.
1 posted on 10/02/2017 5:32:16 PM PDT by sparklite2
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To: sparklite2

And FR still has a hook in its mouth.


2 posted on 10/02/2017 5:34:46 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Learn How To Search. Ask Me How.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Photos have surfaced showing an individual resembling the Vegas shooter at a Reno anti-Trump rally. Is it him? No way to tell at this point


3 posted on 10/02/2017 5:40:53 PM PDT by rstrahan
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To: sparklite2

They’re talking about Geary Danley, right? That was a BS story, but I didn’t see if Gateway Pundit covered it because I don’t read the site. That was Google’s fault, really. Stories which claim that the shooter was Muslim are also false, mainly because ISIS was jealous that this guy accomplished in a short timeframe what ISIS couldn’t in their lifetimes, and thus tried to claim him as their own.

The “Paddock wears vagina hat at anti-Trump rally” story has a lot of evidence, and has not been proven to be false. And Marilou Danley was conclusively proven to be a Communist.


4 posted on 10/02/2017 5:41:50 PM PDT by Objective Scrutator (All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
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To: sparklite2

The girlfriend of the shooter was the wife of the man IDd by gateway. Everyone in the early hours was scouring the web for connections. A real connection was found. It was relevant one.


5 posted on 10/02/2017 5:43:22 PM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: sparklite2

Fakebook is (mostly) an 8th Commandment-free cesspool dominated by codependent narcissists and voyeurs.


6 posted on 10/02/2017 5:44:01 PM PDT by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3591374/posts?page=4#4


7 posted on 10/02/2017 5:45:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: sparklite2

“Facebook admitted Monday that its system automatically promoted stories that falsely identified the shooter in the Las Vegas massacre.”

The same “system” must have promoted the BLM ads paid for by the Russians, or something...


8 posted on 10/02/2017 5:46:03 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: Objective Scrutator

“Marilou Danley was conclusively proven to be a Communist.”

Really? I haven’t seen that.


9 posted on 10/02/2017 5:46:16 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: sparklite2

If Fakebook hadn’t deleted the shooter’s page, we’d be able to see just which groups he did belong to, now wouldn’t we???


10 posted on 10/02/2017 5:52:21 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Objective Scrutator

they covered it then promptly pulled the story once it was proven false...


11 posted on 10/02/2017 5:53:10 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: sparklite2
FUJT.

And Cuckerberg, too.

12 posted on 10/02/2017 5:56:31 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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Watch for the death count to be inflated. Didn’t the newtown ‘massacre kids also die in the OKC bombing, another suspected govt false flag.


13 posted on 10/02/2017 6:08:21 PM PDT by sagar
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To: Objective Scrutator
The “Paddock wears vagina hat at anti-Trump rally” story has a lot of evidence, and has not been proven to be false. And Marilou Danley was conclusively proven to be a Communist.

Can you please point me at the evidence? All I saw was a video of a guy in pink with one of those hats being called "Stephen" or "Steven"...but could not see his face.

14 posted on 10/02/2017 6:11:46 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: Objective Scrutator

Where was she proven to be a communist? Didn’t see that

In fact both people have little to know presences on social mefia


15 posted on 10/02/2017 6:14:48 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: sagar

Oh please pick up the phone. Alex needs to rant


16 posted on 10/02/2017 6:16:31 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: sparklite2

The jury is still out on this one...

His girlfriend’s husband is an anti-Trump, moveon.org activist. Since her ID was found in the room, it was assumed that the shooter was her husband...

I ask, would a woman who marries one political moonbat be in a relationship with a Trump supporter? I can’t wait until the facts come out...


17 posted on 10/02/2017 6:18:23 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: rstrahan

Where?!


18 posted on 10/02/2017 6:29:57 PM PDT by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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To: rstrahan

Where?!


19 posted on 10/02/2017 6:36:33 PM PDT by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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To: tired&retired

“His girlfriend’s husband is an anti-Trump, moveon.org activist”


Source?!


20 posted on 10/02/2017 6:37:14 PM PDT by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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