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T-shirts with slogans such as "Proud not to be poisoned" were advertised on the Facebook social network
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Meta, then still under the name Facebook, was determined in the spring in the fight against false information about the coronavirus: "We are removing false claims about the vaccine, reducing the spread of false information about health and providing data for effective vaccine distribution," it said Example in one of several company publications.
In July, a senior manager added: “We have removed more than 18 million cases of Covid-19 misinformation since the pandemic began. In addition, we marked more than 167 million pieces of content on Covid-19 and restricted their range after they were refuted by the network of our fact-checking partners «.
Nevertheless, the company is slipping through obvious cases of false information on the topic: The TV broadcaster CNN has discovered advertisements in the social network in which the corona vaccination is described, among other things, as a "slow, silent Holocaust".
The statement can be read on a T-shirt advertised on Facebook.
The provider is called "Ride the Red Wave".
He also sells sweatshirts on which the current life of Americans is compared with that in Nazi Germany - the company also placed a Facebook ad for this.
It seems that ads are not always checked manually
Another provider advertised T-shirts with the slogan "Proudly unpoisoned" (translated: "Proud not to be poisoned") and a drawing of a syringe.
According to CNN, he uses Facebook "regularly" to advertise anti-vaccination shirts.
The ads were only removed after CNN reported to Facebook and made it aware.
The company admitted that they violated Facebook's guidelines.
According to researcher Laura Edelson, the fact that Facebook did not discover it itself is due to the fact that not all ads are checked manually.
Edelson is part of the New York University team banned from Facebook after researching disinformation and the company's advertising library.
In this public collection, which is quite cumbersome to search, also the now removed reports of the opponents of vaccination are archived.
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