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Facebook is wrongly blocking news articles about the coronavirus pandemic

Posted on AllSides March 18th, 2020
From The Left
coronavirus, censorship, Facebook

Facebook is blocking users from posting some legitimate news articles about the novel coronavirus in what appears to be a bug in its spam filters.

On Tuesday, multiple Facebook users reported on Twitter that they found themselves unable to post articles from certain news outlets including Business Insider, BuzzFeed, The Atlantic, and The Times of Israel. It's not clear exactly what had gone wrong, and Facebook did not respond to a request for comment.

In the face of the mounting COVID-19 pandemic, Facebook has sent many of its content moderators...

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