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Aug 2021
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What Facebook doesn't want you to know a...

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We're taking a quick break from our hiatus for an update on the recent news about COVID vaccine misinformation on Facebook. 


Plus, we revisit the story of Ifeoma Ozoma and her fight to keep medical misinformation off social media platforms way before the pandemic ever began. 


We’ll be back with more TANGOTI soon! In the meantime, say hello at hello@tangoti.com 

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