Activists aren’t happy after Facebook removes phony protest rally
https://thenextweb.com/facebook/2018/08/04/activists-arent-happy-after-facebook-removes-phony-protest-rally/
Activists are in an uproar after Facebook removed an event in its recent crackdown on “inauthentic content.” In spite of the fact the event in question was created by a page which generates said inauthentic content, the would-be attendees say they were planning to go and Facebook‘s deletion of the event undoes all of their planning.
By all accounts, the “No Unite the Right 2-DC” event — which was intended to run counter to a rally organized by infamous white supremacist Jason Kessler — looked sketchy af. It was created by the “Resisters” page, which Facebook identified as a fake news page created by a malicious actor. An account with ties to the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a well-known Russian troll farm, was an event admin for seven minutes.