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Facebook struggle with Gateway and containing disinformation

Woman holds smartphone with Facebook logo in front of Facebook's new rebrand logo Meta in this illustration picture taken October 28, 2021. [Reuters, Dado Ruvic]

The Gateway Pundit, a far-right news site, has used its Facebook page–with more than 630,000 followers–to post bogus stories alleging the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump. Some commenters responded with threats of violence.

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