Last week, Facebook's anti-spam rule went haywire, wrongly blocking and flagging as spam a slew of legitimate posts and links, including those with news articles related to the coronavirus pandemic.
The malfunction happened a day after Facebook pledged to fight misinformation on the virus and said it would rely more heavily on content moderation that was based on artificial intelligence (AI).
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