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Jun 10, 2026
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Violent threats to U.S. lawmakers on Facebook soared after moderation eased: report
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Meta ditched U.S. fact-checkers for Facebook in Jan. 2025 and turned over the task of debunking falsehoods to ordinary users. PHOTO BY KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Article content From explicit calls for murder to sexual harassment, violent threats targeting U.S. lawmakers on Facebook rocketed after tech giant Meta rolled back key content moderation policies last year, a tech watchdog said Tuesday. Article content The report from the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) analyzed nearly eight million Facebook comments targeting 100 members of Congress in the six months…
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