Facebook Is Auto-Generating Militia Group Pages as Extremists Continue to Organize in Plain Sight
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Ahead of the election, anti-government militias are using Facebook to recruit, coordinate training, and promote ballot box stakeouts. Meta isn’t shutting their groups down and is even auto-generating pages.

Ahead of the election, anti-government militias are using Facebook to recruit, coordinate training, and promote ballot box stakeouts. Meta isn’t shutting their groups down and is even auto-generating pages.

  • zephorah@lemm.eeEnglish
    32·
    23 days ago

    I just read an article about a ballot box being lit on fire in a heavily blue locale. After my initial horror I thought why there as opposed to anywhere else blue? There’s a tight contest for the house rep in that district, a purple district.

    • Drusas@fedia.io
      19·
      23 days ago

      It was Vancouver, Washington and Portland, Oregon. Heavily blue areas closely surrounded by heavily right areas.