Facebook removes hundreds of Indonesian accounts linked to fake news, hate speech

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The social network is under increasing pressure to fight the spread of misinformation.

 

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. So Facebook is the arbiter of what is fake news? So Facebook can decide which views can be heard on their platform and what views can't? Sounds like a dictatorship with laws preventing freedom of speech to the benefit of incumbent power... .

No way of knowing whether this group was simply opposition to the current Indonesian Govt or truly operating in a criminal manner. Facebook caving to pressure by Govt's to censor online information - true or false - is a bigger danger to democracy than fake news.

They are also on Twitter

Oh. Ok then.

I would suggest Facebook to be removed from entire internet space..

Wonder if they removed the one that has been using my name for the last few years.

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