Facebook’s VDARE Takedown
Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Boosted VDARE and Unz Review
On April 30, Facebook took down a network of pages, groups, and accounts, based in the United States, that used coordinated inauthentic behavior to amplify websites and promote books that advanced racial stereotypes, attacked people of color, and promulgated narratives of white victimhood at the hands of Black Americans.

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