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1. A massive Facebook page, Rowdy Republican, has been pushing dangerous misinformation about diabetes to millions of people

Its reach exceeded many major media outlets like Vox, USA Today, and the LA Times

And for many months, Facebook did nothing

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2. The way this page operated was instructive.

Rowdy Republican used pro-Trump propaganda to gain audience and engagement. Then attached a diabetes scam to make money.

The scam advised people to ignore their doctors and buy a $55 paperback book

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3. In September, I first reported on this page and never received a reply from Facebook

After my report Rowdy Republican briefly stopped posting links to scams

In response to another inquiry this week, Facebook told me it was taking the page down

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4. The incident shows how slow Facebook is to act, even in cases where pages are endangering the health of its users

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