Posted on 10/17/2018 11:50:30 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Scammers in Bangladesh created over 1,700 fake Women's March Facebook pages in order to sell t-shirts, according to a CNN report.
CNN reported the Facebook pages appeared to be run by local Women's March organizers when in reality they were being created out of the South Asian country, with some of the pages linking to web sites intended to design and sell t-shirts and other merchandise.
The news agency brought the list of false groups to Facebook over the weekend, which swiftly deleted them and informed CNN that it was conducting its own investigation into the matter.
"These Pages and events appear to have been created in order to profit from people interested in the event by selling march-related merchandise," Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone told CNN.
"We continue to investigate, remove additional associated fake events and Pages, and take action against those involved in creating them."
According to the news agency, most of the fake pages had no followers or attendees, but a few picked up a big following.
Fake pages for events in Philadelphia and Chicago garnered over 10,000 RSVPs, according to CNN.
A Seattle event got above 20,000, though CNN notes that it is possible some of the RSVPs were fake in order to make the pages appear more popular.
According to Benjamin Decker, the research fellow at the Shorenstein Center at the Harvard Kennedy School who gathered the data CNN reviewed, the falsified pages were notably sophisticated.
"What is particularly notable about the relative sophistication of dozens of fabricated Women's March Facebook pages is the co-opting of official images and logos, hashtag hijacking, using pre-existing hashtags such as #womenswave to attract attention to the pages, as well as the localized targeting of urban, suburban, and rural communities across the country," Decker told CNN.
Great idea.
They should be prosecuted. If they can do it to them. They can do it to us.
They should be prosecuted. If they can do it to them. They can do it to us.
Social Justice warriors have a seething hatred of the people who live in Bangladesh.
They are driven by a genocidal desire for all the Bangladeshi to die, and short of that they will stop them from being able to gather enough money to feed their children...
The George Harrison concert money must have run out.
Bwahahahaha
Linda SourPussyHat’s idea?
I wonder how many of the RSVP’s actually showed up to an empty parking lot?
I have no problem with that................
WE aren’t that stupid!................
Cha ching! Capitalism. Ya gotta love it.
The GOP is known as the stupid party.
One look at Congress and there are clearly some republican voters that are that stupid.
It’s a miracle we got Trump in.
The GOP is known as the stupid party.
One look at Congress and there are clearly some republican voters that are that stupid.
It’s a miracle we got Trump in.
I was just going to buy a pink vagina hat. Now what do I do?
I doubt they could do it to me. I’m not that gullible.
There are stupids in both parties.
They have more than we do.................
Is it a “scam” if they get the merchandise they paid for?
Were there copyright or trademark violations? If not then I don’t understand what the issue is.
Or is the issue NOT that it is a ‘scam’, but that the money isn’t going to the organizers and the intended political effort?
Bangladeshi Lives Matter.
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