Facebook groups are using the carrot emoji to hide anti-vax content from automated moderation tools.
The BBC has seen several groups, one with hundreds of thousands of members, in which the emoji appears in place of the word “vaccine”…
The groups are being used to share unverified claims of people being either injured or killed by vaccines.
Once the BBC alerted Facebook’s parent company, Meta, the groups were removed…
BBC1Archive link to keep a record of their collusion in censorship; and deprive them of potential clicks.
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- 1Archive link to keep a record of their collusion in censorship; and deprive them of potential clicks.
- 2Sarcasm. More about the Trusted News Initiative.
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