{"id":5759,"date":"2022-05-18T07:36:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T05:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/18\/facebook-fails-to-stop-spanish-language-anti-abortion-disinformation-study-says\/"},"modified":"2022-05-18T07:36:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T05:36:32","slug":"facebook-fails-to-stop-spanish-language-anti-abortion-disinformation-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/18\/facebook-fails-to-stop-spanish-language-anti-abortion-disinformation-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook fails to stop Spanish language anti-abortion disinformation, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group examined nine profiles reaching more than 2.79 million people peddling inaccurate information without consequence<\/p>\n<p>Anti-abortion Facebook pages with millions of followers are spreading disinformation about abortion to Spanish speakers with little to no intervention from the social media platform, according to a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prochoiceamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Translating-Abortion-Disinformation-The-Spanish-Language-Anti-Choice-Landscape.pdf\">report<\/a> from Naral Pro-Choice America.<\/p>\n<p>The abortion rights group examined nine Facebook pages that reach more than 2.79 million people for the first-of-its-kind report, part of its efforts to show how disinformation is disseminated by opponents of abortion. Researchers found that several of the pages \u201crepeatedly spread medically inaccurate information about abortion without any action from Facebook\u201d, highlighting what experts have described as a crisis of Spanish-language misinformation that\u2019s slipping through the cracks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/may\/17\/spanish-anti-abortion-facebook-pages-disinformation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/79b192ba2c02f40faec6133ecbf8e28b796b9b2b\/0_98_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2352cf1e5cb9dfe9d978648e9bc40a54\" title=\"Facebook fails to stop Spanish language anti-abortion disinformation, study says\" \/>A group examined nine profiles reaching more than 2.79 million people peddling inaccurate information without consequence<br \/>\nAnti-abortion Facebook pages with millions of followers are spreading disinformation about abortion to Spanish speakers with little to no intervention from the social media platform, according to a new report from Naral Pro-Choice America.<br \/>\nThe abortion rights group examined nine Facebook pages that reach more than 2.79 million people for the first-of-its-kind report, part of its efforts to show how disinformation is disseminated by opponents of abortion. Researchers found that several of the pages \u201crepeatedly spread medically inaccurate information about abortion without any action from Facebook\u201d, highlighting what experts have described as a crisis of Spanish-language misinformation that\u2019s slipping through the cracks. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group examined nine profiles reaching more than 2.79 million people peddling inaccurate information without consequence Anti-abortion Facebook pages with millions of followers are spreading disinformation about abortion to Spanish speakers with little to no intervention from the social media platform, according to a new report from Naral Pro-Choice America. The abortion rights group examined &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/18\/facebook-fails-to-stop-spanish-language-anti-abortion-disinformation-study-says\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook fails to stop Spanish language anti-abortion disinformation, study says<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5760,"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\/5759"}],"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=5759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}