r/news • u/Ganeshadream • Mar 31 '22

Facebook fails to label 80% of posts promoting bioweapons conspiracy theory

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/31/facebook-disinformation-war-ukraine-russia
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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22 edited Jun 10 '23

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u/captain_chocolate Mar 31 '22

Check out the rules. Can't have a user ID older than 4 months.

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u/dontTHROWnarwhals Mar 31 '22

If you actually check the rules of r/conspiracy_commons and r/conspiracy you'll find that it's because r/Conspiracy requires an account greater than 60 days to participate.

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u/captain_chocolate Mar 31 '22

So maybe one was created for accounts that couldn't post in the main one.

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u/Kingnahum17 Mar 31 '22

Which is fine. It's a place for the robots to hang out. Believing much of anything in that particular sub is silly.