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Fb now bans advertisements peddling coronavirus conspiracies and faux remedies

Fb doubles down on its want to halt the unfold of coronavirus incorrect information, this time by way of prohibiting advertisements for "cures." How efficient will it's?
Facebook doubles down on its desire to halt the spread of coronavirus misinformation, this time by prohibiting ads for "cures." How effective will it be?

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Author: Thenextweb

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  3. "Back in August, Facebook announced it would begin banning posts related to the QAnon conspiracy movement that supported acts of violence. Since then, the company has removed over 1,500 Pages and Groups for QAnoncontaining discussions of potential violence and over 6,500 Pages and Groups tied to more than 300 Militarized Social Movements". (October 6, 2020)
  4. "Technology giants are shook because the Apple privacy strategy is rolling on. Bet they rue the day iOS 14 was ever announced". (January 28, 2021)
  5. "Facebook hasopen-sourced the first AI model that can translate between any pair of 100 languages without first translating them to English". (October 20, 2020)
  6. "Facebook launched its bug bounty program in 2011. Now, the company is bringing an intriguing update to it with a loyalty program calledHacker Plus, which will reward security researchers to keep finding bugs in the social networks platform". (October 9, 2020)
  7. "When TikTok was banned in India last June, Instagram jumped on the short video bandwagon very quickly and launched Reels. The company rolled out the feature globally in August 2020. Now, its parent company Facebook is integrating Reels in the blue app". (March 9, 2021)
  8. "Exxon, Comcast, and other companies target people of different political leanings with different ads on Facebook. Here's how that works". (April 14, 2021)
  9. "Facebook finally adds Holocaust denial and distortion to its list of banned topics, two years after Zuckerberg infamously said it wouldn't". (October 13, 2020)
  10. "If youre on Twitter, its very hard to escape discussions about Clubhouse the audio-based social network that lets you chat with other people in real-time. Its whipping up such a storm that Facebook has decided to make its own version". (February 11, 2021)
  11. "Facebook today announced a new feature called Drives. No, thats not a drive in the sense of yet another cloud storage service, but instead in the sense of clothing drive or food drive". (November 24, 2020)
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