{"id":29074,"date":"2020-11-11T11:28:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T19:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29074"},"modified":"2020-11-11T11:28:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T19:28:12","slug":"facebook-takes-down-bannon-linked-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29074","title":{"rendered":"Facebook takes down Bannon-linked network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook removed a network of pages linked to former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon that were spreading misinformation about voter fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The company removed seven pages which collectively had more than 2.45 million followers, according to activist organization Avaaz, which notified Facebook of the network of Bannon-linked pages on Friday as part of the group&#8217;s investigation into election disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about removing the network, a Facebook spokesperson confirmed the company \u201cremoved several clusters of activity for using inauthentic behavior tactics to artificially boost how many people saw their content.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/uwwmvzybchhsjzjhsgnccsmmcyskhyhddfcbzpkhywpmpg_hnbvccbqbzvwncncqqnm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/uwwmvzybchhsjzjhsgnccsmmcyskhyhddfcbzpkhywpmpg_hnbvccbqbzvwncncqqnm.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1605139279523000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGT7sX5L67hEpo_mtlxwV93-KUenA\">Washington Post was first<\/a>\u00a0to report on the update on the removal of the network on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The pages sought to \u201cdelegitimize the election with claims of \u2018voter fraud\u2019 and \u2018Stop the steal,\u2019 \u201d Avaaz said in the message to Facebook last week.<\/p>\n<p>The removed pages were taken down as part of Facebook\u2019s enforcement against spam-like and abusive behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook removed a network of pages&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29075,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29074\/revisions\/29075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}