This story presents a conundrum. Jones has been banned from scores of properties the past few weeksโsometimes preemptively and other times reactively. They range from ad networks and payment processors to social platforms and streaming providers. .../ washingtonpost.com/technology/201โฆ
Jones/IW had at least 92 directly identifiable, active profiles, pages, and accounts in July. To date, 54 have been removed. Of the 38 remaining, *16* are Infowars Store related. They include platforms & companies that have removed all the other AJ/IW accounts .../
On Facebook, for example, the Infowars Storeโstill active and currently seeing the highest engagement since Sep 2015, when it posted its top-selling "Hillary for Prison" t-shirt was the only page in Jones/IW core group that ran targeted advertising campaigns, aka sponsored posts.
Looking at latest group of "inauthentic" accounts, the oddest case is the removal of Q4T. During last week's press call, MZ claimed FB had discovered, w/FireEye's help, that "Q4T was in fact linked to PressTV, an English-language news network affiliated w/Iranian state media"
Fireeye's statement about IDing of Q4T
I have a couple of observation - questions. First, PressTV, the "state-run" news organization that's linked to Q4T has an active Facebook profile.
With 4 million followers. facebook.com/PRESSTV/
Facebook stated that the recent batch of removed accounts and pages were "distinct campaigns" and it had not found "any link or coordination between them."
"Pages created about 30 events... about half had fewer than 100 accounts interested in attending."
โ July 31, 2018 Facebook statement. newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/07/rโฆ
The admins invited almost 70,000 Facebook users (guests) to these 30 events. Nearly 45,000 responded at some point. The *average* number of users who responded as ๐interested or โ๏ธattending (went) was close to 1,800.