On Facebook, anti-vaxxers urged a mom not to provide her child Tamiflu. He later died.

Facebook groups that consistently traffic in anti-vaccination propaganda have ended up being a resource for individuals looking for a variety of medical details– consisting of about the continuous influenza season.Facebook hosts a large network of groups that sell incorrect health info. On”Stop Mandatory Vaccination,”among the biggest recognized health false information>>>

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Facebook says technical error caused vulgar translation of Chinese leader’s name

YANGON (Reuters) – Facebook Inc (FB.O) on Saturday blamed a technical error for Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s name appearing as “Mr Shithole” in posts on its platform when translated into English from Burmese, apologizing for any offense caused.   The error came to light on the second day of a>>>

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Bernie Sanders Secures Crucial Endorsement From Leftist Facebook Meme Page

Bernie Sanders has just scored a crucial endorsement from the New Urbanist Memes for Transit-Oriented Teens, a popular leftist Facebook meme group. The Facebook meme group connects teens and millennials across the world who are entertained (or obsessed) with memes about urban transportation and planning. In an admin post published>>>

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Facebook Glitch Reveals Greta Thunburg’s Father Posting As Teenage Climate Activist

Facebook Glitch Reveals Greta Thunburg’s Father Posting As Teenage Climate Activist A Thursday evening software update at Facebook accidentally allowed anyone to view exactly who is posting under the accounts of public figures, businesses and other entities, according to . The result? For starters, some 3 million followers of teenage>>>

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Facebook tweaks ad policy but still allows political lies in U.S. campaign 2020

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc (FB.O) revealed minimal modifications on Thursday to its technique to political advertisements, consisting of allowing users to shut off specific ad-targeting tools, however defied critics’ needs that it bar political leaders from utilizing its advertisements system to spread lies. Ahead of the U.S. governmental>>>

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Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior From Georgia, Vietnam and the US – About Facebook

Today, we removed two unconnected networks of accounts, Pages and Groups for engaging in foreign and government interference — which is coordinated inauthentic behavior on behalf of a government or foreign actor — on Facebook and Instagram. The first operation originated in the country of Georgia and targeted domestic audiences.>>>

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