Facebook allows shocking video ads falsely claiming an imminent attack on U.S.

“300 million Americans will perish,” asserts a recent $75,000 ad campaign from right-wing conspiracists, which uses deep fake technology

Over the past month, two right-wing conspiracy pages on Facebook have spent $75,000 on video ads promoting false claims of an imminent attack on the U.S. power grid. 

The video ads, run from pages named “The Patriot’s Digest” and “Patriot’s Digest,” falsely claim that “300 million Americans will perish” from a coordinated attack by Russia and China that …