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    Editorial: Pinterest strikes back at online disinformation. Are you paying attention, Facebook?

    by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times Feb 25, 2019 2 minutes

    In the two years since the fake-news problem on Facebook and other major social media networks burst into the spotlight, the companies have taken one dramatic action after another to try to rid themselves of disinformation. At Facebook, for example, the company deleted more than 2.8 billion bogus accounts from Oct. 1, 2017, to Sept. 30, 2018; those accounts are the frequent launching pads for spam, scams and fake

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