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Consider this: last year, Meta took down 91,000 pieces of “harmful health misinformation” in Australia. That’s about 250 pieces removed every single day from Facebook and Instagram. It’s less than 2021 and 2020, when they took down 180,000 and 110,000 posts respectively.
Is that a lot? Or is that not enough? Could it even be the perfect amount? That’s what I wondered as I read Meta’s “transparency report” for 2022, released alongside similar reports from tech companies like Google and Twitter as part of their voluntary participation in an industry-created Australian misinformation and disinformation code.
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