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Facebook’s big QAnon crackdown might have come too late

The Verge

Trump has fanned the flames of QAnon for years, retweeting dozens of accounts linked to the theory, and demonstrating that the group’s rise is much more than a problem of content moderation. Still, Facebook made it clear today that, like other networks before it, the company does consider QAnon a problem.

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Platforms successfully stopped a lame COVID conspiracy video from going viral

The Verge

The World Health Organization is developing methods to measure the harm of virus-related misinformation online, and over two weeks in July the group hosted an online conference with doctors, public health experts and internet researchers about how to address the problem. They know how to do the right thing, and they can.

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