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The AI-generated cover image of the Australia Life Facebook group

Fake Flags: the Facebook network rebranding itself as Australian, British, French and Canadian communities

Forty-two Facebook pages and four groups present themselves as local community outlets across six countries. Meta's own manager-location and advertising records place their management in Sri Lanka. Between them they hold roughly 900,000 follower and member positions.

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Methods, explainers and lessons from the work

Fake Flags: the Facebook network rebranding itself as Australian, British, French and Canadian communities

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One useful email a month: dispatches, a toolkit, a teardown and a case file.