Facebook keeps marking legitimate news articles about the coronavirus as spam and no one knows why

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Author: Jay Peters

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge
Facebook appears to be marking some posts linking to information and articles about the coronavirus and COVID-19 as spam, as observed by one Verge reporter and many users on Twitter on Tuesday evening. It’s unclear what’s causing the issue. Facebook tells The Verge it is looking into the matter.

Here are a few examples:

.@Facebook -- Oh wow and then three in a row !

How is @TomHanks being okay be SPAM? And again this is from @Upworthy not exactly a new publication. All I did was share it. pic.twitter.com/SYhYknzJ9Z

— Kristine Schachinger (@schachin) March 17, 2020

Something is going on on Facebook. I’ve seen four separate people in the past couple hours saying their posts about coronavirus were marked as “spam”. And one of them is...

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