Roy Moore’s Wife Has a Facebook Group She Uses to Post Fake News Articles Supporting Her Husband

Breitbart, Gateway Pundit, and USANEWSMAGAZINE Are Frequent Sources

Kayla Moore, who runs far right wing Christian legal advocacy group Foundation for Moral Law, has started a Facebook group, Friends of Roy Moore, to defend her husband, “Judge” Roy Moore. She’s apparently posting as many fake news articles as she can find to make him appear innocent and his defenders frauds.

The “credible news sources” she’s discovered include Gateway Pundit, run by the man best known as the “stupidest man on the Internet.” Most recent posts are from Steve Bannon’s Breitbart website. Bannon has endorsed “Judge” Moore. There are also posts from something called the Conservative Daily Post, founded in 2016. 

Perhaps the “best” article Kayla Moore posted was from USANEWSMAGAZINE. The article is titled, “REPORT: ALABAMA WOMAN CLAIMS REPORTER OFFERED HER $1000S TO ACCUSE ROY MOORE OF SEXUAL ABUSE? (UPDATED).”

It is based on tweets from @umpire43, whose name is “Doug Lewis #MAGA.”

The tweets suggest the Washington Post paid or tired to pay Alabamians “1000$” to lie about Roy Moore. The “news” was also “reported” by Gateway Pundit.

All the tweets have since been deleted, because it’s fake news. 

“The dumb-as-hell claim, which had no evidence, briefly went viral,” Gizmodo reported Monday night. “But after Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel and Task and Purpose editor Adam Weinstein challenged inconsistencies in the account’s military backstory—like whether he had earned 2, 3, or 4 Purple Hearts—@umpire43 registered for a tweet deletion service and cleared out their account on Monday.”

LOL seems appropriate at this point.

It’s not all fake news. Some posts are legitimate news from legitimate news sources. Those seem to be fewer over the past week or so. Some others are misleading posts.

“What is disturbing about these posts,” Mashable notes, “is how extremely at home they seem on Facebook. The social network is now so casually weaponized that the wife of a Senate candidate spreading misinformation about serious allegations seems downright quaint.”

The Friends of Roy Moore Facebook page has 3208 members, who are also allowed to comment, if they follow the rules, like: “Please don’t spam on this page!” and, “If you post something on this page that has nothing to do with Roy Moore it will be delete and you will be banned.”

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