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Facebook takes down 1.3 billion fake accounts
Facebook took down 1.3 billion fake accounts between October and December and had over 35,000 people working on tackling misinformation on its platform. The company also removed more than 12 million pieces of content about Covid-19 and vaccines that global health experts flagged as misinformatio...

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