Facebook removes fake Italian news accounts

With the European elections just around the corner, the EU is seeking social media to make a greater effort to eliminate fake news pages. This is what happens now in the case of Facebook. The quintessential social network has removed several fake news profiles from Italy. A total of 23 accounts have been removed, as previously revealed.

Facebook removes fake Italian news accounts

Among these pages they added a little more than 2.5 million followers. So it is an important action on the part of the social network.

Fight against fake news

It has been revealed that false news was shared on these pages on various topics, such as immigration or vaccines. In addition, messages with anti-Semitic content were shared in them. More than half of these pages that have been removed were from followers or people who gave their support to the parties that currently govern in Italy: the Five Star and Lega movement.

In March, Facebook announced measures against this type of page. The EU had requested it, as there were European elections in March, as a way to avoid repeating situations such as those that occurred in other elections such as the American or Brexit.

For this reason, pages such as Google, Twitter or Facebook have to make monthly reports for the EU on this type of situation, so that they have control over the pages or countries that seek to influence the elections. Surely there are more pages that are removed these days.

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