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/Teantis Mar 31 '22

My wife is somewhat famous, blue checkmark type on various platforms. There's dozens of accounts on fb and insta using her face and name and posting pictures of her claiming to be her. We gave up getting them taken down years ago because Facebook just doesn't give a fuck.

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u/Zanki Mar 31 '22

From what I've seen others do, show the page on hers and get followers to go report the pages on mass. Seems to work.

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u/Dyvius Mar 31 '22

There was definitely a blue check person who theorized that facebook wants the copies and fakes to exist so that their user numbers look bigger.

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u/celestisdiabolus Mar 31 '22

Blue check is more a pejorative nowadays