lauren@vortex.com
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 15:28:51 -0700
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,
CNN has learned. Fundraising campaigns associated with the Facebook page
were suspended by PayPal and Patreon after CNN contacted each of the
companies for comment. Donorbox and Classy had already removed the
campaigns. The discovery raises new questions about the integrity of
Facebook's platform and the content hosted there.