Facebook Espionage Wave: Online Conservatives Under Attack

Election year has started and so have the Chicago style politics that we are all so familiar with in recent years. The latest event involves the number #1 social media outlet on the internet Facebook. The perpetrators are calling themselves the “Goatz Alliance”, they infiltrate groups and pages, then deleting the groups administrators and begin posting anti conservative propaganda and deleting group members. 

The name of the game seems to be destroying Conservative and TEA Party Groups and FB Pages. 

This is a personal message received today from Reed Chambers a facebook administrator . Reed points out the names, the groups these people reside in and some of their aliases they use on FB.

But this is by no means an isolated incident, as you will see below, the examiner investigated and reported a similar stories on Jan 12th 2014. While liberal trolls attack conservatives and TEA Party members on FB, it has been reported that Facebook actually looks the other way and is no help at all.

Understand that There are several levels of administrators on Facebook pages. Content creators can post content, moderators can delete comments and messages, and managers have the ability to delete other administrators. Perfossional trolls (Many are paid) quickly persuade a FB group or page’s owner to grant them manager access.  Almost immediately, the page get’s hijacked and the legitimate administrators are deleted.

This is already starting to be another cut throat  year in American politics.

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  Reed Chambers II

  BEWARE OF PEOPLE STAGING HOSTILE TAKE-OVERS OF FACEBOOK TEA PARTY GROUPS!

  The relentless RAT “Chaos Operatives” cyber-attacks continue.  These people go to one of our associated tea party units, then she deletes all of my tea party’s members, changes the status to secret, and in so doing, is waging war against the tea party.

   

  To see the group, follow the link below: https://www.facebook.com/n/?groups%2F363923413716349%2F&aref=344370364&medium=email&mid=93e7f3aG21374c9eG1486acbcG90&bcode=1.1389658636.AbmUt34z2HirmZNC&n_m=male_aries_dragon%40yahoo.com

  Jason Doolin, owner of the conservative Citizens’ Post page on Facebook, said that Patrick Blair, allegedly a representative of The Freedom Alliance contacted him several months ago about helping him to expand his page. Blair gained his trust over a period of months. There is a real Freedom Alliance as well, a Virginia based charity organized as 501(c)(3) organization that educates young Americans in civic responsibility and provides scholarships to the children of American soldiers.

  Blair apparently operated several fake conservative Facebook pages and websites as a cover. In some cases, he seems to have even recruited conservative activists to administer and work on these pages, only to delete their work and revert the pages to goats later. Blair used the fake conservative pages to make conservative friends and seem more credible to his targets.

  Doolin said that after gaining his trust Blair proposed an “admin exchange” in which the various pages in his Freedom Alliance would grant each other administrator status and exchange ideas. The plan was also promoted as a way to increase awareness of smaller pages like Doolin’s Citizens’ Post.

  Blair allegedly put his plan in to action on January 10. He asked Doolin to grant administrator status to himself and a friend, Lyman Briggs. Late that night, Blair and his comrade deleted Doolin and his other page administrators and vandalized the page with anti-conservative and anti-Republican hate.

  Doolin attempted to contact Facebook to report the abuse and theft of his page, but it is almost impossible to get in touch with Facebook’s customer service and security personnel. Although Facebook says on itslegal page that the company “respects the intellectual property rights of others and is committed to helping third parties protect their rights,” the company makes it very difficult to communicate with them about a problem.

  Emily Garman on the blog, The Social Animal, posted a video that describes the process to recover control of a hijacked Facebook organizational page. The process is essentially to report the abuse via dropdown menus on the page and hope that a Facebook representative deigns to contact you. A search of the internet did turn up a Facebook page with a procedure for reclaiming business pages. Depending on how the page was set up, this procedure may allow users to regain control of hijacked sites.

  Patrick Blair was traced to a Facebook page in Buxton, Maine. On his timeline, he admitted to duping conservatives and “goating” their pages. Blair appears to also be involved with pages called “Busta Troll” and “Busta’s Army.” These pages are dedicated to “trolling,” visiting opposing sites and trying to provoke arguments. A post on Busta’s Army from January 10 claims responsibility for hijacking Doolin’s Citizens’ Post.

  Various posts on the three pages refer to “paid liberal trolls.” It is unknown whether these internet denizens are actually paid and, if so, by whom. On his Facebook page, Blair claims to be paid by George Soros, but this is doubtful.

  Examiner’s investigation turned up an several earlier attacks by the Goatz Alliance. Miss Lilly (name changed to protect her identity) was an administrator on a conservative page called “America, the Next Generation.” One of the other administrators on the page posted a picture of President Obama in a noose, a picture that Miss Lilly agrees was “in bad taste.” The page’s owner removed the picture, but not before it was noticed by leftist bloggers.

  Orlando Liberal Examiner Robert Sobel was apparently the first to notice the picture on December 31, 2013. The next day, Addicting Info, a far left-wing blog picked up the story and credited Steve Marmel, “a TV writer and producer with a left-wing Facebook page,” for pointing it out.

  As the story hit the liberal blogs, Miss Lilly said their page was inundated with liberal trolls. “These were the nastiest, vilest [people],” she says. “I have never encountered such utter hatred and contempt. This goes way beyond racism. They called us racists, but what they said and did to us was beyond the scope and definition of racism. They are truly sick people.”

  She continued, “We must have banned hundreds and hundreds of them. Facebook did nothing to help.”

  Eventually, the site’s owners were contacted by James M. Ritchie, a.k.a. “Ranger,” who claimed to be a “troll killer.” Ritchie offered to help the site’s owners fight off the liberal attacks if they granted him administrator status on the page.

  About the same time, the goats first appeared on the page, posted by a user calling himself “Vlad the Emailer.” Vlad claimed that goats were “an international peace sign” and offered his help as well. Another user who offered help, “Irwin Jr.,” may also be one of the goats.

• If you have been victim of abuse or harassment, it should be reported to Facebook. This can be done by clicking the gear symbol at the top of the offending page or user’s timeline and selecting “report page.” Individual posts can be reported as well. Click the “v” symbol in the upper right corner of the post. This will open a menu with an option to “report post.” When Facebook responds, users can use the feedback option to type a message to Facebook’s customer service and security team. Any threats should definitely be reported to Facebook as well as to the police.

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