Tag Archives: ‘The big delete:’ Inside Facebook’s crackdown on German network spreading Covid misinformation

Days before Germany’s federal elections, Facebook took what it called an unprecedented step: the removal of a series of accounts that worked together to spread Covid-19 misinformation and encourage violent responses to Covid restrictions. The crackdown, announced on September 16, was the first use of Facebook’s new “coordinated social harm” policy aimed at stopping not state-sponsored disinformation campaigns but otherwise …

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