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Facebook and YouTube spent a year fighting COVID misinformation - it’s still spreading

15 mins | Aug 2, 2021
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Conspiracies have planted a dangerous seed of mistrust. The social media giants have struggled to find and take down anti-vaccine propaganda. But medical misinformation has thrived on their platforms for years. Gerrit De Vynck and Rachel Lerman examine whether tech companies have arrived too late to make any discernible impact in scepticism.

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