Is it working?
Not really
Dangerous conspiracy theories about COVID-19 continue to run rampant on the platform
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In a series of posts and videos, Buttar asserts that COVID-19 is a gov't conspiracy and hospitals are intentionally killing people to drive up support for a mandatory vaccine
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Some of his videos have been viewed 500K+ times on Facebook
None of his recent posts have been fact-checked or removed
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First, Facebook's third-party fact-checking program is much too small for a platform the size of Facebook.
Almost nothing gets checked
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Facebook has made this explicit
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