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

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Cossy Wed 12-Feb-25 11:12:42

I once was banned for referring to myself, in humour as a “greedy 🐷🐽”

Sometimes I truly believe the world has gone bonkers.

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Elegran Wed 12-Feb-25 11:04:31

People with completely unpolitical factual pages on FB are postng to relate their skirmishes with authority, about posts beng deleted and bans put in place over things "detected" and tried convicted and sentenced by their non-human bot patrols. You can't argue with them. VVV ( Victorians, Vile Victorians, a knowledgeable and entertaining page publishing photos and stories that illustrate the Victorian era) has moved everything to host it on Patreon.

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Allira Wed 12-Feb-25 10:32:37

Zuckerberg is the major shareholder of Meta which owns Facebook.
Zuckerberg is another of Trump's allies.

Just a thought.

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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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