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Facebook’s plan to protect the European elections comes up short

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Intentionally false news stories were shared more than 35m times during the 2016 US presidential election, with Facebook playing a significant role in their spread. Shortly after, the Cambridge Analytica scandal revealed that 50m Facebook profiles had been harvested without authorisation and used to target political ads and fake news for the election and later …

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Fact Check: Did Bath MP Wera Hobhouse claim “£7,456 expenses last year for vegan cheese”

On By William DanceIn Fact Checks1 Comment

SummaryThis claim is false and originates from a satirical article published on Facebook. This is backed up by the lack of evidence in Hobhouse's expenses information on the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority website and has been confirmed to be false by the office of  Wera Hobhouse MP. Full Fact Check ContextBrowsing through Facebook on Tuesday I saw …

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