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Facebook labeled 180 million posts as ‘false’ since March. Election misinformation spread anyway.


The numbers Facebook is and is not willing to share say a lot about its ability to stop election misinformation.

On a call with press Thursday, Guy Rosen, Facebook’s VP of Integrity, said that since March the company put “warning labels” on 180 million pieces of content — meaning a third-party fact-checker reviewed and debunked them.

Facebook subsequently put a gray box over that content when people shared it, with a “false” warning label and a link to the debunk.

That’s a big…

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