Facebook crack down on fake news campaign targeting City

I think the main driver must be the Qataris who are involved in an information war with the UAE at present. But the Qataris have close links with UEFA and other enemies of our club. Rick Parry for example was a member of the Qatar World Cup bid team.
Let's face it. We have suffered a widespread smear campaign in the UK media involving relentless leaks from our commercial rivals; had our emails hacked as part of an international extortion plot (Rui Pinto); been targeted by selective leaks from UEFA's confidential investigations; had our computer systems hacked by Liverpool FC officials; and now we are victims of an international fake news campaign.
I am not usually a conspiracy theorist but it does look a bit dodgy doesn't it?
Never see a bad word about utd, Liverpool and arsenal, just look at Liverpool and the furlough story
 
Similar situation with the rest of the print media. Having seen this thread for the first time this morning, I clicked on the ‘Mail’ link to read that article (I know I shouldn’t have.. I do feel dirty, forgive me..) and then checked the rest of the press and the BBC to see if they were running with it. Nothing on any of them, not a sausage..

Typical of how any story regarding City has been dealt with this past decade.. if it’s slightly positive in any way, shape or form, just one of the venal twunts ‘covers’ it, briefly.. but if it’s negative, it’s a media pile on, with a frenzy of anti-City headlines and articles.

I hope when all of this UEFA/G14/FIFA vs UEFA/Qatar vs Emirates/anti-Arab racism and so on and so on is all done and played out, the people behind all this anti-City stuff are exposed for what they are..
This story has been circulating in the Indian media for weeks. You can check it on Google. A previous post on this site linked to a story in the India Times. The Mail has come to the story late but it will be ignored by most of the UK media.
 
What does it mean by fake news in this context ? I mean its a an opinion held by many that our owner is engaged in sports washing opinions are not news so how can they be fake news ? And our owner does have human rights issues and the UAE is involved in Yemen So they are facts ? So how is that fake news ?
If you check this story properly you will see that a PR firm in Delhi has created an extensive network of fake news sites carrying fictitious stories which support the Qatari regime or attack those opposed to it. Some of this operation has involved targeting our owners and our football club. This is nothing to do with opinion. Some of these stories have formed the basis of further attacks on City in the UK mainstream media. This is as corrupt and political as it gets which is why Facebook have shut it down.
 
More on McGeehan. It was December 2017 when he published the article that probably started the "sportswashing" saga on Medium.

He'd just left HRW at that point (and been kicked out of the UAE 4 years previously) which begs the question of what he was doing for a living at that point. Why choose that particular time to release that? He'd not even mentioned us in that 2010 Guardian article where he'd ripped into the UAE.

That point in time was the start of the escalation of the diplomatic spat between some Arab nations, including the UAE, Saudi, Bahrain, Jordan, Egypt and others, and Qatar. This was over their support and funding for the Muslim Brotherhood, which the former group believed was essentially a terrorist grouping. This spat started around 2013 but exploded in late-2017/early 2018 when diplomatic relations were broken off and sanctions imposed. And up pops an unemployed McGeehan with that pretty vituperative piece. I suppose it could be a complete coincidence but....
 

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