Kruse was linking to Drew Harwell's WaPo story about a pathetic, but persuasive, strain of political disinformation about Nancy Pelosi. The theory advanced by the viral video is "Pelosi is unwell." "For comparison, Facebook disabled 1.2 billion fake accounts in the previous quarter and 694 million between October and December 2017." The company says "we've seen a steep increase in the creation of abusive, fake accounts on Facebook in the last six months. Tomorrow, perhaps, The New York Times and other media that published so much of the important news and information Assange provided."

Source: CNN May 24, 2019 05:44 UTC