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The hate factory: how it works

Facebook posts are composed by an Israeli administrator from a central location using social media managing software. The content has a short message and a link to generally anti-Islamic content from a small pool of websites controlled by the administrator. The headlines and images of the shared content range from misleading to outright fabrications

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Western countries must cut all their foreign aid to countries where Sharia law is practiced

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'False' watermarks added by The Guardian

The content is posted to a network of at least 21 far-right Facebook pages in the US, Australia, Israel, Canada, Austria and the UK

• 995k page likes
• 9.74m interactions in last year

Each Facebook post makes money by driving traffic back to ‘articles’ on one of 10 different websites. These articles contain a large number of ads and are a mix of copied and pasted content from other far-right sources, opinion, actual news and fabricated content

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