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In Ukraine, Facebook fact-checkers fight a war on two fronts. From Kyiv to Lutsk, they are racing to debunk propaganda about the war while also trying to survive it. April 12, 2022.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the VII Summit of the Americas in Panama City on April 10, 2015. Six weeks later, his own Facebook page would be flooded by numerous complaints from Ukrainian users ...
Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, took an unusual step last week: It suspended some of the quality controls that ensure that posts from users in Russia, Ukraine and other Eastern European ...
Facebook today reported an increase in attacks on accounts run by Ukraine military personnel. In some cases, attackers took over accounts and posted "videos calling on the Army to surrender," but ...
Russia launched 597 drones and 26 missiles in an overnight attack on Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.
Facebook posts claim that Ukraine was responsible for the Kramatorsk train station bombing. A video used to bolster this rumor is fake. Although the video has a BBC logo, ...
There is no evidence that Putin’s decision to wage war in Ukraine has been motivated by a desire to rid the country of child trafficking. And although they don’t mention QAnon, these claims ...
Earlier this year, Facebook hired StopFake to help curb the flow of Russian propaganda and other false news across its platform in Ukraine. StopFake, like all of Facebook’s outside fact checkers ...
On Jan. 3, 2022, a Facebook user posted more than 30 purported reasons as to why Ukraine matters. It was copied and pasted many times on social media in what's known as copypasta.The data from the ...
Lily Yashchuk of Lviv was able to get herself and her 5-month-old daughter, Solomia, out of Ukraine with the help of Agata Bialas, a Polish woman she connected with on a Polish Facebook group.