Facebook fails to stop Spanish language anti-abortion disinformation, study says

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Facebook fails to stop Spanish language anti-abortion disinformation, study says
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A group examined nine profiles reaching more than 2.79 million people peddling inaccurate information without consequence

pages that reach more than 2.79 million people for the first-of-its-kind report, part of its efforts to show how disinformation is disseminated by opponents of abortion. Researchers found that several of the pages “repeatedly spread medically inaccurate information about abortion without any action from Facebook”, highlighting what experts have described as a crisis of Spanish-language misinformation that’s slipping through the cracks.

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