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Héloïse Théro
Measuring the effect of Facebook’s downranking interventions against groups and websites that repeatedly share misinformation
Emmanuel M. Vincent, Héloïse Théro and Shaden Shabayek
Facebook has claimed to fight misinformation notably by reducing the virality of posts shared by “repeat offender” websites. The platform recently extended this policy to groups. We identified websites and groups that repeatedly publish false information according to fact checkers and investigated the implementation and impact of Facebook’s measures against them.