Facebook shuts down thousands of fake pages in its latest crackdown

The social-networking site is also working to block ads and reduce the distribution of misinformation related to vaccinations.

Original article
Author: Usatoday

USA TODAY delivers current local and national news, sports, entertainment, finance, technology, and more through award-winning journalism, photos, videos and VR.

Usatoday has recently written 11 articles on similar topics including :
  1. "Over 370,000 people signed on to a Facebook event to raid Area 51 in search of aliens. The facility's purpose has long been a subject of speculation". (July 12, 2019)
  2. "Having trouble accessing Facebook or Instagram Wednesday? You weren't alone". (March 13, 2019)
  3. "Facebook is considering restrictions on who can livestream on the social network following shootings at two New Zealand mosques, Sheryl Sandberg said". (March 29, 2019)
  4. "Instagram and Facebook apps were down for several hours for some users in the United States and Europe Wednesday. WhatsApp users also seeing issues". (July 4, 2019)
  5. "The social media giant said it has resolved the issue, which affected millions of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users starting Wednesday". (March 14, 2019)
  6. "Facebook settled five lawsuits alleging its targeting tools allowed advertisers to exclude certain groups from seeing housing and employment offers". (March 19, 2019)
  7. "Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook, said the social networking giant should be broken up in an op-ed on The New York Times". (May 9, 2019)
  8. "Instagram and Facebook apps are suffering outages for some users in the United States and Europe. WhatsApp users are also seeing issues". (July 3, 2019)
  9. "“Curious if there are any talks of striking". (February 20, 2019)
  10. "One police officer posted that Ocasio-Cortez was a "vile idiot" who should be shot. The other police officer liked that Facebook post". (July 23, 2019)
  11. "After a server change took Facebook and Instagram down for many for most of Wednesday, Apple's iCloud faced its own share of issues Thursday". (March 15, 2019)
Posted on