Tonight: Foreign Facebook pages altered Fox News videos, a 1918 newspaper's mask warning, Michael Flynn's curious cancelled card case, and another viral "Sleepy Joe" video

Foreign, Pro-Trump Facebook Pages Post Altered Fox News Videos, Earning Tens of Millions of Views

A network of Facebook pages managed from Bulgaria, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, is pushing hundreds of videos of primetime opinion shows from Fox News, One America News Network (OAN), and Newsmax. The majority of the videos have been posted with altered thumbnails and lower-third headlines, presenting the misleading idea that the conservative personalities on the shows reported that U.S. President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were going to jail.

Jordan Liles reports.

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Did a Newspaper in 1918 Warn Readers ‘Wear Your Masks, Take No Chances’?

"If there were complete public co-operation, a combined offensive of the whole community would soon stamp out the evil," the San Francisco Chronicle wrote of the 1918 flu pandemic. Read Story.