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'Ya Basta': A New Coalition Calls on Facebook to Tackle the Spanish Misinformation Crisis

March 16, 2021

Vera Bergengruen, TIME

The company is allowing rampant disinformation campaigns to continue to target Spanish-speaking communities in the United States.

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