While various anti-vaccine groups throughout the United States of America are actively trying to stage their own version of the devastating Canadian “Freedom Convoy”, foreign content factories do not stop working to support these efforts for their own benefit. Going into more detail, Facebook’s parent company, Meta, told the reputable media outlets Reuters and NBC News earlier last week that it had recently successfully removed several groups and pages from a so-called “truck convoy” at once. run by scammers in Vietnam, Bangladesh, Romania and other countries.
The company also said that many of these groups have recently changed their names for the very purpose of using terms such as “trucker”, “freedom” and “escort”, in the hope of taking advantage of the sudden interest in rallies taking place in some neighboring countries. . Many of the same pages contained links to websites selling pro-Donald Trump and anti-vaccine products. At the same time, most of the accounts that took part in these groups were tied to real people.
So right now on Facebook there is a situation where foreign players are trying to monetize radical people from other countries. “Expressing opposition to government mandates is not against Meta policy. However, we have removed several groups and pages for repeatedly violating our policy that prohibits QAnon content, as well as those run by spammers around the world, ”a corporation official said. Moreover, the company even revealed that it will continue to actively monitor the entire situation.
“We continue to see scammers picking on any thorny issue that gets people’s attention, including ongoing protests. Over the past week, we have removed groups and pages run by spammers around the world who used abusive tactics to mislead people about the origin and popularity of their content in order to redirect them to non-platform websites to monetize ad clicks.” Meta spokesman told Engadget. And yes, with a high degree of certainty, it can be argued that the activities of such communities on the open spaces of Facebook will cause another major Meta litigation with various regulatory bodies.
