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Facebook announces bust of COVID-19 disinfo campaign linked to China

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Facebook has announced the removal of hundreds of accounts linked to foreign disinformation campaigns regarding COVID-19. In a blog post on Wednesday, the social media company revealed details on several adversarial networks stemming from China, Palestine, Poland, Belarus, Italy, France, and Vietnam. The accounts tied to Vietnam were accused of violating Facebook’s rules on mass reporting while accounts in France and Italy reportedly engaged in brigading, a tactic where use “work together to mass comment, mass post or engage in other types of repetitive mass behaviors to harass others or silence them.” The networks out of China, Palestine, Poland, and…

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