Ireland wsm.ie: Homophobic No Campaigners Setting Up Fake Equality Pages

wsm.ie: Homophobic No Campaigners Setting Up Fake Equality
Pages (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)

In the last 24 hours anti-equality campaigners have been setting up fake Yes to equality 
Facebook pages and then posting links around to large groups like the 26,000 strong anti 
water charges group. The intention being to trick people into voting No by trying to give 
credence to the fevered imaginations of homophobes. ---- We are not linking to the fake 
pages or giving their full names as the way Facebook works this would result in making 
these fake posts visible to more people. But the image is a screen shot of one such post 
with part of the page name obscured. That particular fake Yes page only had 5 likes, one 
of those being that of a known No campaigner. ---- It seems unlikely that they can swing 
many votes this way. We would also hope that by circulating that this is going on that 
anyone who might have been fooled by the 'we are not homophobic but about children rights' 
spin will realise exactly how honest those spouting such nonsense are.

We would ask people to keep an eye out for such fake posts and when you see them post a 
comment pointing out they are fake. Their fakeness is pretty obvious to anyone involved in 
the campaign but they do seem to have fooled a few people.

http://www.wsm.ie/c/homophobic-no-campaigners-fake-equality-pages