US Political Consultant Bought Over 200 Fake Facebook Pages to Defend Himself
May. 9, 2020Now, ajoint petitionby five major news outlets — CNN, Politico, the Associated Press, The Washington Post and The New York Times, has made the FBI open more than 30 search warrants for looking into Stone’s communications.
After getting his hands on these fake pages, Stone ran political stories that damaged the opponent party’s reputation. However, when he became a prime suspect for conspiracy charges later,he used those pages to run ads that defended himself.
Extracts fromofficial FBI recordsshow the Facebook ads with titles like“I am not in touch with Russians…”and“Stone Rebuts Charge of Russian Collusion”.
However, in an interview with Politico, the man said that the newly unsealed FBI warrants“prove no crimes”.
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