FILE - In this June 19, 2020, file photo, protesters wear protective masks as they march after a Juneteenth rally outside the Brooklyn Museum, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. A loose network of Facebook groups that took root across the country in April to organize protests over coronavirus stay-at-home orders has become a hub of misinformation and conspiracies theories that have pivoted to a variety of new targets.
An Associated Press review of the most recent posts in 40 of these Facebook groups — most of which were launched by conservative groups or pro-gun activists — found the conversations largely shifted last month to attacking the nationwide protests over the killing of Black men and women after Floyd’s death.Facebook users in some of these groups post hundreds of times a day in threads often seen by members only and shielded from public view.
Facebook said it is aware of the collection of reopen groups, and is using technology as well as relying on users to identify problematic posts. The company has vowed in the past to look for material that violates its rules in private groups as well as in public places on its site. But the platform has not always been able to deliver on that promise.
What are you doing? Getting into a contest with CNN to see which one of you sucks the most?
Point of focus here: these are *Facebook* groups. Another example why advertisers are saying StopHateForProfit slpng_giants
The community party thanks you for your service, .
I didn’t join the “California Patriots” group because frankly I don’t want to join just to see the posts. Plus I don’t have enough time to scroll through every comment from all of the members. But here is part of their message about how members should/shouldn’t use the group page
I will never believe anything on fb.
CarlaRK3 They used to be the Tea Party. Then they were birthers... rinse and repeat
They are following trumps directions to be stupid and racist
Twitter is worse than Facebook by far. This is a left wing shithole!!!!
Russians
CIfAcebook always gets it right
Conservatives, misinformation and conspiracy theories. Name a more iconic trio.
AP is actually trying to deflect the spotlight on others as a 'hub of misinformation'...that's rich. LaptopJournalism
All this yet in Georgia, the racist flag still flies
Dog piling has taken attention away from police brutality to the poor black and brown
You don't have to run interference and justify BLM. Been watching them for years. They've written their own story. BLM isn't a pro black lives movement it is an anarchist anti police movement. They couldn't care less about All Black Lives, the only care about the ones they pick.
You are the misinformation
ProVaxx2 Facebook is cancer.
Boycott Facebook!
MattxRed Screw Facebook
Let there be light! Amen. BLM
More Fake News! The silent majority will be awakening! You animals, thugs & racists!
FactCheck AllLivesMatter
jennycohn1 And that’s how disinformation works.
BLM has been compromised. Everyone is misinformed.
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tolulopeab M.! As,. Xm,x,,
ap is such garbage will unfollow now
jennycohn1 jack fb_engineering Working to kill America
jennycohn1 Facebook is a ceaspool. They need to deep clean
Foreign state actors?
Every smart person knows blm is a total fraud solely designed to cultivate victimhood.
Sounds like the NYT and CNN you are speaking of
And yet these same Facebook groups are now no more accurate than they were when they were protesting stay at home orders.
Facebook groups that propagate hate directed at peaceful protesters need to be put in check Facebook facebookapp fbnewsroom Mark has done enough to create nasty echo chambers filled with misinformation BlackLivesMatter is a Human Rights, Justice movement Stop the hate
BLM has always been a target for racists. Anything with the word black is a target. Nothing new.
Haha AP is another anti american radical liberal group spewing hate and division all day long. You guys belong over in china with all the propaganda you spread
A lot of words to get around saying white
Black lives are looters
😂the shit y’all write.
How's the backdoor China checks feelin' AP CCP mouthpiece
Facebook needs to do better. This is why they won’t.
The MSM are hubs of misinformation
What’s your point? You’re not the arbitrator of what is and isn’t an acceptable opinion / speech. Sorry to disappoint you and all the other fascists in the mainstream media.
Wash, rinse and repeat. The GOP has been using this tactic since 2015
BLM should go to hell. They are a bunch of violent oppressors
Facebook’s “community standards” are a joke! They rarely remove offensive or deliberately misleading posts...no wonder that sort of thing is flourishing there.
Black lives matter except apparently if they are unfortunate enough to live in Chicago. Every weekend there is carnage that tragically involves innocent women and children.
For idiots.
Facebook is a mess. Why do sane people use that site?!? 🤦🏽♂️
it's their freedom
😡😡😡😡
Let's just say... In a world of meritocracy, the actions speak for themselves.
When you include BLM in your headline, please clarify which one you are discussing: The noble sentiment BLM, or the Marxist organization BLM masquerading as a champion of racial justice? We can use fewer clickbait headlines.
You don’t like differing opinions, do you?
Some people will believe anything
ungubunugu1274 Do the decent thing and quit Facebook! It should be called Fakebook
What reads all this crap on FB? I no user. I use Twitter. How many among them with brains & how many without brains? Any audit? Whose job to secure the users from all this crap? FB? Zuck? State meaning Trump? What a mess boy wonder Zuck created? Visionary from hell?
Sifill_LDF Yup. Whatever the Kochs and Mercers pay for. One big grift on the CultofSuckers.
Nazis
Good thing Zuckerberg is on it then
Another reason to DeleteFacebook
Misinformation? You mean like on CNN?
They said “mask off” in more ways than one
And in future news, 'U.S. Intelligence finds that Russians were behind Facebooks groups that were created to protest coronavirus stay-at-home orders and then attacks on BLM and then QAnon...' Where have I heard this all before? Oh yes, 2016:
Hub of misinformation. So like the mainstream media than.
Suckerberg is doing nothing about misinformation! CANCEL FACEBOOK!
Misinformation from the . What’s in it for you AP? What prize do you get for misleading your readers on the facts of protesting, rioting and most of all, BLM? Other than the prize of socialism & tyranny for the United States. Stop Lying. This is not about race.
You mean ppl telling the truth?
You have to be kidding me with this reporting. Misinformation? Masks. Hydroxychloraquine. The media is a bigger source of misinformation.
Don’t forget the riots, violence and looting.
Good
DeleteFacebookNow
It is getting harder and harder to tell Bots from GOPers. Both groups obliterate America grammar.
BAN THEM ALL
You Dont Quarantine a whole Population for a virus with 98.7% Recovery Rate. You Quarantine the Sick. They have every Right to Protest That and Organize. And BLM is a Marxist Extremist Group Hell bent on Destroying our Society. They been on TV saying so. Go to they're Website.
Black live matter is a Democrat ploy, if black lives matter so much why don't the go to all those Democrat governed cities where the murder rate of black citizens are in the hundreds, because they don't matter just the votes they get for their lies do
Surprise.
BLM is anti American commie trash
StopHateForProfit boycottfacebook Also keep in mind Parler = Facebook for Koolaid drinking Trump Cult QAnon best avoid that echo chamber.
130,000 dead from Coronavirus (and climbing) and the President uses the term 'totally harmless.' 53,402 killed in WWI. 47,424 killed in Vietnam War. 33,686 killed in Korean War. Yep, and the President says that 99% of the cases are totally harmless. Death is not 'harmless.'
Seems like AP is worried too many people will learn the truth instead of swallowing the agenda. Free speech on Facebook is still free speech.
It’s funny, the attacks are p probably about the fact that Black Lives Matter money goes to Democrats. that’s a fact! black lives matters is run by Marxist they said it themselves look it up EnemyOfThePeople
They will move onto anti-vax soon
People who believe social media posts and professional media posts are fools. They all lie to keep you angry and divided. Read the source material and decide for yourself- every time. Don’t think how they tell you to think- think for yourself.
That's all they are is conspirators against America.
But all those black squares
Your a hub of misinformation.
The biggest source of misinformation comes from the media ESPECIALLY the
Sifill_LDF DeleteFacebook
BLM is a Marxist group with ties to the MuslimBrotherhood who’ve vowed to destroy our system. Why doesn’t the media report on this aspect? 🤔
ap is the misinformation. People are just pointing out the hypocrisy of shutting down the economy while promoting the destruction of it through riots and protests. BLM is a DNC funding organization, and marxist organization. That’s based on fact.
Not a conspiracy theory. was once a reputable publication capable of non-biased journalism
At this point, anyone that believes the info on Facebook without doing their on research is a fool. Facebook is just a propaganda tool. It is useless for anything other than sharing photos among family & friends and catching up with long lost hs and college pals. That’s it.
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