As countries around the world try to deal with the coronavirus epidemic, another kind of virus has been spreading online infecting milions of users with false information.
Large Facebook pages that push medical disinformation were recently banned by the platfrom after they were found to be spreading articles as trolls. According to NBC News' latest reports, Facebook pages from the Philippines and North Macedonia were banned from the social media platform after spreading false information about the ongoing global pandemic, the company announced on Friday, May 29.
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According to the social media platform, the actions were part of its routine enforcement against spam networks. Facebook's spam alarms were effectively tripped by the irregular behaviors of Natural News, after posting contents at an unusually high frequency in an attempt to avoid rate limits.
After getting banned from Facebook in 2019, Natural News evaded Facebook's regulation by posting content on its branded disinformation groups called "GMO Dangers" and "Amazing Cures" which accumulated hundreds of thousands of followers. Facebook banned all users from posting links to Natural News and its sister websites across the social media platform on May 19, after discovering the foreign platform manipulation.
