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Facebook has banned a misinformation-based anti-vaccine campaign. The disinformation campaign targeted mainly India and Latin America. Medium, Change.org and Facebook were used.
According to the details, the social networking website Facebook has launched a campaign to spread misinformation about the corona vaccine with the help of social media influencers, which has been dubbed as misinformation laundromat.
Under this laundry, false claims are made ineffective by spreading good information through people with good and clean reputations. Facebook claims that there was a systematic campaign based on fraudulent corona vaccine. , Behind which was the hand of a Russian marketing firm ‘Faze’.
Speaking to reporters, Ben Nemo, head of Facebook’s Global Threat Intelligence, said that in July he had removed 65 Facebook and 243 Instagram accounts linked to the disinformation campaign and banned Faze from Facebook. Well, keep in mind that Faze is a subsidiary of Advertising, a UK-based advertising company.
The firm was reportedly trying to spread false information through influencers, but failed. Last year, the same network spread false rumors about the AstraZeneca vaccine that would turn people into chimpanzees.
According to Facebook, the campaign was later exposed by influencers in France and Germany, when they asked Faza questions via e-mail and then journalists turned to investigating the matter, Facebook also said. This information about the phase has now been passed on to law enforcement agencies.
