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Oh, dear, I repeated a hoax on FB and got my knuckles rapped.

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Elegran Wed 12-Feb-25 10:03:56

So yesterday I saw a letter on a FB page, said to originate from a head of state in a country not my own, and shared it on my own page. This morning I have a message from Google.
Apparently:-
Independent fact-checkers reviewed the photo and said that it was false. 11 Feb 2025

Facebook added a notice to the post. 11 Feb 2025

and People who repeatedly share false information might have their posts moved lower in News Feed so other people are less likely to see them. though I have seen many bits of worse false information repeated ad nauseam on Facebook.

Obviously the factcheckers consider my contribution is more dangerous than most. Therefore, I am adding a link below to the factcheckers' page about this hoax, so that my Gransnet friends can avoid repeating it. Do read it carefully.

leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2025/02/fact-check-no-evidence-mexican-president-said-shame-on-trump-warned-us-not-to-build-border-wall.html?

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Allira Fri 14-Feb-25 11:46:21

I've never had an exemption nor has DH - are we due a refund?
😀

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Allira Fri 14-Feb-25 11:48:03

I couldn't get on to Facebook this morning, I just kept going round in circles, putting in log in details time and again then they'd disappear. I had to change my password then could log on.

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David49 Fri 14-Feb-25 11:58:08

Allira

I couldn't get on to Facebook this morning, I just kept going round in circles, putting in log in details time and again then they'd disappear. I had to change my password then could log on.

My Facebook account got hacked aves ago and is in Chinese no great loss so havn’t bothered to fix it.

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Allira Fri 14-Feb-25 12:03:35

Oh! Goodness knows what you might be sharing with your FB friends, David 😯

I have a couple of friends whose accounts have been hacked more than once.

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