{"id":1105,"date":"2021-04-11T06:02:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T04:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/11\/facebook-still-too-slow-to-act-on-groups-profiting-from-covid-conspiracy-theories\/"},"modified":"2021-04-11T06:02:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T04:02:08","slug":"facebook-still-too-slow-to-act-on-groups-profiting-from-covid-conspiracy-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/11\/facebook-still-too-slow-to-act-on-groups-profiting-from-covid-conspiracy-theories\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook \u2018still too slow to act on groups profiting from Covid conspiracy theories\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 100 Instagram accounts are promoting dangerous antivax views and selling \u2018detox\u2019 products, investigation finds<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Covid conspiracy theorists are seeking to profit from the millions of followers they have built up on Instagram during the pandemic by marketing health supplements, wellness courses and juicers to them.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebureauinvestigates.com\/stories\" title=\"\">Bureau of Investigative Journalism<\/a> has identified more than 100 Covid conspiracy accounts promoting products to an audience of almost 6 million people on Instagram, which is owned by Facebook.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/apr\/11\/facebook-still-too-slow-to-act-on-groups-profiting-from-covid-conspiracy-theories\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2a9c03831039d1d55216dd343c9132517d149847\/0_78_595_357\/master\/595.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=17d91960f54d94276ed86e8533fddbe5\" title=\"Facebook \u2018still too slow to act on groups profiting from Covid conspiracy theories\u2019\" \/>Over 100 Instagram accounts are promoting dangerous antivax views and selling \u2018detox\u2019 products, investigation finds<\/p>\n<p>Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nSee all our coronavirus coverage<\/p>\n<p>Covid conspiracy theorists are seeking to profit from the millions of followers they have built up on Instagram during the pandemic by marketing health supplements, wellness courses and juicers to them.<br \/>\nThe Bureau of Investigative Journalism has identified more than 100 Covid conspiracy accounts promoting products to an audience of almost 6 million people on Instagram, which is owned by Facebook. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 100 Instagram accounts are promoting dangerous antivax views and selling \u2018detox\u2019 products, investigation finds Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Covid conspiracy theorists are seeking to profit from the millions of followers they have built up on Instagram during the pandemic by marketing health supplements, wellness courses and juicers to them. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/11\/facebook-still-too-slow-to-act-on-groups-profiting-from-covid-conspiracy-theories\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook \u2018still too slow to act on groups profiting from Covid conspiracy theories\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}