A network of Facebook troll accounts operated by the Myanmar military parrots hateful rhetoric against Rohingya Muslims. Viral misinformation runs rampant on WhatsApp in Brazil, even as marketing firms there buy databases of phone numbers in order to spam voters with right-wing messaging. Homegrown campaigns spread partisan lies in the United States.
Opinion | Hey, Facebook, Don’t Make Journalists Do Your Work
Social platforms have a responsibility to address misinformation as a systemic problem, instead of reacting to case after case.
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