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August 5, 2022 MANILA – Over 6 million Facebook and Instagram posts by Filipino users during the May elections were taken down by Meta for inciting violence, hate speech or bullying, according to a report that tracked poll-related social media content in the Philippines, known as “patient zero” in the global war against disinformation. The social network also observed large-scale “inauthentic behavior” on its platforms, referring to fake accounts spamming election-related posts, according to Meta’s latest quarterly adversarial threat report, which monitored content from the Philippines in the four months leading up to the May 9 polls and the week...
