Why Is Facebook Marking COVID-19 Posts As Spam?

18-Mar-20 12:45

Why Is Facebook Marking COVID-19 Posts As Spam?

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Have you seen posts on Facebook about COVID-19 related articles being marked as spam according to Facebook’s Community Guidelines? As it happens, Facebook’s News Feed spam filter ran into a problem identifying what counts as spam and what is legitimate information.

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Presented by: Richard Bradbury, Arvindh Yuvaraj and Christine Wong

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Categories: Technology, Tech, Personal Development, Entrepreneurship, SME

Tags: spam filter, content moderation, facebook, legitimate information, COVID-19,

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