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	Podcast:		WIRED Business – Spoken Edition
	Episode:		Facebook Cracks Down on Networks of Fake Pages and Groups
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:06:26
	Publish Date:		2019-01-24 06:10:19
	Description:		Pages and groups are the tools Facebook misinformation peddlers love the most. Creating a network of anonymous pages is one of the easiest ways to quickly spread fake news or propaganda on the social network. This tactic has most famously been used by Russian trolls—even long after the 2016 presidential election. Earlier this month, Facebook took down a cohort of deceptive pages linked to Russian state media.
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