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Facebook pulls pseudoscience from its list of targeted ad categories

Even as Mark Zuckerberg touted the “hundreds of thousands of pieces of misinformation related to COVID-19” that the web page had pulled in contemporary months, Facebook endured to provide targeted advertisements categorised as “pseudoscience.” It used to be an strange selection from a social community so publicly stating its personal camp…
Even as Mark Zuckerberg touted the “hundreds of thousands of pieces of misinformation related to COVID-19” that the site had pulled in recent months, Facebook continued to offer targeted ads classified as “pseudoscience.” It was an odd choice from a social network so publicly declaring its own camp…

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