Sunday, 21 June 2020

Some Facebook groups created to protest lockdowns are now hotbeds for misinformation

Some Facebook groups created to protest lockdowns are now hotbeds for misinformation

Earlier this spring, as some Americans increasingly tired of stay-at-home orders during the pandemic, groups began cropping up on Facebook demanding that state officials reopen the economy. Some of these groups, which researchers say total in the hundreds on Facebook, echoed rhetoric by President Donald Trump and quickly gained a massive following, in some cases adding thousands of members a day.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/20/tech/facebook-reopen-groups/index.html?source=Snapzu

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