Monetising hate: covert enterprise co-opts far-right Facebook pages to churn out anti-Islamic posts
by Michael McGowan, Christopher Knaus and Nick Eversh from Technology | The Guardian on (#4W4BH)
Exclusive: Israel-based group has gained access to at least 21 pages, using them to launch coordinated false stories to their 1 million followers around the world
A mysterious group has used some of Facebook's largest far-right pages to create a commercial enterprise that harvests anti-Islamic hate for profit and influences politics across the globe, a Guardian investigation has revealed.
For the past two years the Israel-based group has co-opted at least 21 organically grown far-right pages, using them to churn out thousands of coordinated posts to more than 1 million followers across four continents and funnelling audiences to a cluster of 10 advertisement-heavy websites to milk the traffic for profit.
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