Sep 16, 2022
Carrot emojis hide anti-vax posts on Facebook
Facebook groups are using the carrot emoji to hide anti-vax content from automated moderation tools. The BBC has seen several groups, one with hundreds of thousands of members, in which the emoji appears in place of the word "Vaccine". The groups are being used to share unverified claims of people being either injured or killed by vaccines. One group we saw has been around for three years but rebranded itself to focus on vaccine stories, from being a group for sharing "Banter, bets and funny videos" in August 2022.The rules of the very large group state: "Use code words for everything". Facebook said last year that it had removed more than 20 million pieces of content containing misinformation about Covid-19 or the vaccine since the start of the pandemic.
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