I'm Justin Charity.

I'm Kate Knob.

Welcome to Damage Control on the Channel 33 Network, a podcast where we unpack what upsets,

excites, and divides us in popular culture.

Info Wars about Info Wars.

Conspiracy theorist Shock Jock Alex Jones finally got sort of punished for spreading lies on

the internet recently, and we're going to talk about whether it made a difference.

But first, we're going to talk about another social media scandal because the internet

is a garbage can full of demon waste.

This week, Facebook announced that it had discovered evidence of quote unquote bad actors

attempting to influence Americans online.

What it actually found is a lot more complicated.

We'll explore it all on this week's Damage Control.

Okay, I know it's like at this point extremely hard to keep track of all of Facebook scandals.

I'm like continually very confused about it because it just, there's a new one all the

time and there's a new one this week.

So Facebook announced it had removed pages and posts from what it referred to as bad

actors.

It didn't say Russians, but they kind of meant Russians, which we'll get to in a minute.

And it removed these pages and posts and accounts because it said that they were running

what Facebook referred to as banned, coordinated, inauthentic behavior.

So they took down your page?

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