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Facebook is cracking down on groups worldwide to slow the spread of political disinformation

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Key PointsIn this article on Wednesday announced it will no longer recommend civic and political pages or new groups to all users globally.The policy builds on in October to such recommendations to U.S. users ahead of the 2020 presidential election. The decision was part of the company's efforts to reduce the spread of misinformation on its services. The company these groups from U.S. recommendations in January, following the insurrection at the U.S Capitol on Jan. 6.Facebook won't recommend new groups at all for 21 days, meaning that group administrators will have to manually recruit followers.Facebook also announced other changes intended to curb the misuse of groups on its social network. The purpose of the changes is to slow the reach of political actors looking to use Facebook for harmful purposes.These changes include:Besides these changes to group restrictions, Facebook announced that individual users who are found to have repeated violations in groups will be blocked from posting in groups, commenting in groups, inviting others to groups and creating new groups.The changes will roll out to users over the coming months.The big, messy business of content moderation on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube

Key PointsIn this article on Wednesday announced it will no longer recommend civic and political pages or new groups to all users globally.The policy builds on in October to such recommendations to U.S. users ahead of the 2020 presidential election. The decision was part of the company's efforts to reduce the spread of misinformation on its services. The company these groups from U.S. recommendations in January, following the insurrection at the U.S Capitol on Jan. 6.Facebook won't recommend new groups at all for 21 days, meaning that group administrators will have to manually recruit...

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Salvador Rodriguez is a CNBC technology reporter covering Facebook and social media. He was previously with Reuters, Inc. Magazine, the International Business Times and the Los Angeles Times. He can be reached at salvador.rodriguez@nbcuni.com or by cell or Signal at 281-409-3516.

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