Largest Black Lives Matter Facebook Page Revealed as Fake

Put together two things as phony as Facebook and Black Lives Matter and what would you expect if not fraud?

For at least a year, the biggest page on Facebook purporting to be part of the Black Lives Matter movement was a scam with ties to a middle-aged white man in Australia, a review of the page and associated accounts and websites conducted by CNN shows.

The page, titled simply “Black Lives Matter,” had almost 700,000 followers on Facebook, more than twice as many as the official Black Lives Matter page. It was tied to online fundraisers that brought in at least $100,000 that supposedly went to Black Lives Matter causes in the U.S. At least some of the money, however, was transferred to Australian bank accounts…

The Fakebook page drove traffic to sites associated with the benignly named blackpowerfist.com, which was registered by an Australian National Union of Workers official named Ian Mackay.

“Our mission is to raise awareness about racism, bigotry, police brutality and hate crimes by exposing through social media locally and internationally stories that mainstream media don’t,” a message on the group’s Donorbox page read.

More likely, the mission was to enrich Mr. Mackay. Fools and their money are easily parted.

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