Conspiracy theorist tactics show it’s too easy to get around Facebook’s content policies
- Written by: Amelia Johns, Associate Professor, Digital and Social Media, School of Communication, University of Technology Sydney
During the COVID pandemic, social media platforms were swarmed by far-right and anti-vaccination communities that spread dangerous conspiracy theories.
These included the false claims that vaccines are a form of population control, and that the virus was a “deep state” plot. Governments and the World Health Organization redirected...
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