Want to Help Combat Disinformation? Show Us What You’re Seeing. – Mother Jones
In late July, Facebook announced it had removed nearly three dozen pages that had been involved in “coordinated inauthentic behavior” intended to “mislead” users ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. The pages—which appeared across both Facebook and the company’s photo-sharing platform, Instagram—shared content that amplified positions espoused by American liberals, such as the “Abolish ICE” platform. They also advertised fake events intended to attract progressive activists, like a “Trump Nightmare Must End” rally in Times Square. (You can see samples of the content Facebook removed here.) While Facebook hasn’t yet completed its investigation into who orchestrated the effort, the company told federal lawmakers that it suspects a Russian group is behind them.....
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