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Facebook is the land of fake stunting, fake fronting, fake rich lifestyles, fake love, and fake news – but fake activism? Yes, fake activism! Now that so much is being released about the ties that Facebook, Russian bots, and the 2016 election has had on our democracy, Facebook has been slowly informing us of how much of our personal information, the pages we love, and even some of the people we follow have all been tainted on the most powerful media platform in the world. Today we learned that the biggest Black Lives Matter movement page on Facebook is a scam.

The page was titled Black Lives Matter and was run by a middle-aged white man living in Australia. CNN investigated this page that had over 700,000 followers – which is more than the “official” Black Lives Matter page. Not only is this page fake, but they managed to help raise at least $100,000 that they said were going to Black Lives Matter causes around the United States. In a CNN investigation, they learned that some of this money was transferred to Australian bank accounts.

Of course the page has been cancelled, but this is yet another black eye for Facebook who has been struggling for the last month to explain personal information being released to private entities, Russian spies and bots, and Facebook’s ties to Trump and his researchers. Zuckerberg testified in front of Congress and discussed some of the changes Facebook is making to combat so much of the fake representation that’s been plaguing the platform. Zuckerberg now says that Facebook will make people who run large pages, identify themselves and their location.

Facebook Knew

But, it’s not like Facebook wasn’t aware of the fake BLM page. According to CNN, Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of BLM, informed Facebook that the page was fake “some time ago”, and asked for it to be removed. Not only did the Australians have the fake page and a Like page, but they also had a very large Facebook group called “Black Lives Matter” with 40,000 members.

Ian Mackay, is the person suspected of setting up this fake page, along with other pages tied to black issues. Mackay also registered blackpowerfist.com, blacklivesmatter.media, etc.; the person(s) behind these accounts asked people to donate money for their “causes”. When CNN reached out Mackay, he denied ever owning these pages, he stated: “I once bought the domain name only and sold it.”

Yesterday, Facebook disabled some of Mackay’s other Facebook profiles he used to run some of the BLM pages. The Donorbox and Paypal accounts they used to raise funds were also suspended.

This is unfortunate for so many hardworking Black Lives Matter members. Many of them actually have boots on the ground, and are in communities doing real work. Many articles lately have described the real struggles that go on behind the scenes for some of these activists and what they have endured. Barely making it, many of these community activists are trying to fight for causes, pay bills, maintain a healthy lifestyle – while simultaneously putting their lives and health at risk. These organizers depend on donations in order to barely survive.

Deray McKesson had this to say to CNN:

“It’s important to remember the movement was organic and no organization started the protests that spread across the country. The consequences of that is it hasn’t been easy to think about authenticity in the digital space.”

Also, the fact that Facebook is only releasing this information and shutting down pages, AFTER they had to testify in front of Congress is disturbing. Every week we are receiving more and more details about some of the things they knew about, but simply let go on without caring about the consequences.

Source: CNN

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This week, wake and funeral arrangements have been finalized following the tragic murder of one of our beloved national and local heroes, Muhiyidin Elamin Moye. While many are still trying to come to grips with how someone so peaceful and kind could have fallen victim to this type of violence, others are now coming forward questioning the circumstances of Moye’s death. Earlier today, former United States Senator, Robert Ford drafted a passionate plea on his Facebook page, as a call to action that more needs to be done to investigate the murder of Muhiyidin Elamin Moye. In his post, Ford points out that Moye was called down to New Orleans to assist with the Black Lives Matter movement in the city, he stated:

“As you are aware, one of our most successful activist in the Black Lives Matter Movement, Muhiyidin Elamin Moye, has been killed. He was shot at night in New Orleans, Louisiana on Tuesday, February 6, 2018. This MUST be a call to arms as Moye was contacted to help organize the Black Lives Movement in New Orleans and this seems to be a Civil Rights Action that should be further investigated by the United States Justice Department.”

In the past week, many who have had a connection to Muhiyiddin have had similar sentiments questioning the possibility of this being a random shooting, or was it something more sinister? There are many questions that are continuously being raised, but in the mean time the advice from former Senator Robert Ford gives us an actionable step of something we can do to help find answers. We stand with former Senator Ford and we also encourage you to call your Senators and Congressmen, write letters and take some sort of meaningful action as a means of urging authorities to launch an intensive investigation into the murder of our teacher and leader, Muhiyiddin Elamin Moye.

Write letters to:
The Honorable Jeff Sessions, Attorney General
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001

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2016 was simply…one hell of a year! Despite some major events that went down this year including the notorious police trials across the country, even the Dylann Roof trials, and the many celebrity deaths – we managed to narrow down what events impacted us the most here at Syllabus Magazine. There wasn’t a dull moment in 2016, but we managed to find the Top 5 Most Impactful moments for this year. Slide through our slideshow below, then tell us what events, people, and places had the biggest impact on you this year?

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CULTURE: So It Happened. Donald Trump Became America's 45th President. Now What?

CULTURE: You cannot have a 'Most Impactful' list without including the defeat of Hillary Clinton by Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential election! Not only did it impact the voting majority of this country in a surprising way, but it will continue to impact us for the next 4 years!

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So it happened. No this is not a drill, no this is not a test, this is real life! What most of us took as a joke really happened. Donald Trump is now the President of the United States; OK, so now what? Despite your personal feelings regarding our new Commander in Chief, the reality is NOW is the time to prepare for the unpredictable events that may come within the next four years. As African Americans and people of color, as a segment of the population we understand that many of the Trump policies and platform may not align to the best interest of our communities. A Trump presidency may even put a financial, educational, and cultural strain on our communities; however, none of this remains to be seen for right now.

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In the wake of the murders of Terrence Crutcher and Keith Lamont Scott, protests are now happening across the country. Just hours ago, a protester posted this disturbing video during a protest at Eastern Michigan University.

Details are slim, however sources reveal that the vehicle became impatient (sidenote: or drove down this street with the purpose with one purpose in mind) at protesters and drove directly through the crowd of Black Lives Matter Protesters. The vehicle appears to be a black Jeep Wrangler, you can even see the jeep speed away as some protesters run after the car. Meanwhile protesters are screaming and some even appear to have fallen to the ground.

This is not the first time an attack like this has happened, in July this year, another SUV plowed through a group of Black Lives Matter protesters.

Right now, it is still too early to tell if anyone has been hurt. See the clip below, and be safe out there!

#BlackLivesMatter

https://instagram.com/p/BKoHlQahVR8/

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On Wednesday, hundreds of protesters gathered in downtown Charleston, S.C. to stand for justice. Three local college students, organizer Carli Drayton, 21, of James Island, Typhani Gray, 21, of West Ashley, and Paris Simmons, 20, of Charleston led the charge, along with Muhiyyidin d’Baha and Black Lives Matter Charleston and drew out hundreds of protesters demanding justice for the black lives that have been taken at the hands of police officers all over the country. Shout out to those three young ladies!! Check out some of the raw footage below.

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