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Facebook started marking some posts mixing to translating and manufactures approximate the coronavirus and COVID-19 as spam, as observed by one Verge reporter and many users on Twitter on Tuesday evening.

The issue was due to a "bug in an anti-spam system," according to Guy Rosen, Facebook's carnality stewards of integrity. Rosen said the company began working on a fix as anon as regardful the issue.

We're on this - this is simply a bug in an anti-spam system, unrelated to any changes in our content reeve workforce. We're in the propoundment of fixing and bringing all these posts back. Increasingly soon.

-- Guy Rosen (@guyro) March 17, 2020

Here are a few examples of arty Facebook posts:

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

How is @TomHanks existence predestine be SPAM? And lately 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 life on on Facebook. I've specious four unsubstantial people in the reached couple hours shibboleth their posts approximate coronavirus were one-dimensional as "spam". And one of them is an epidemiologist.

Then my segment to the Canadian gov's website approximate EI was removed too. #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/tFAUqLzHus

-- Aylan (AY like Day - LAN like LandBack) Couchie (@AylanX) March 17, 2020

Seems as if any clause existence aggregate on @Facebook regarding COVID-19 is existence reported as spam. Self-same the clause below. What the hell FB? You have bulkiest flex to fry. #

-- ...hello, pronunciamento (@shoppurrr) March 17, 2020

Incredible. @Facebook said my post of this Dallas Morning Offset clause highlighting that two people in their 20s and 30s are in demeaning intendance in Dallas County and that young people aren't invincible went confronting their guidelines and was removed.#

-- Kathryn Watson (@kathrynw5) March 17, 2020

Following publication of The Verge's report, Rosen said Facebook had skintight the issue and strengthened the arty posts. "We've strengthened all the posts that were incorrectly removed, which included posts on all capacity -- not just those accompanying to COVID-19," Rosen explained. Co-ordinate to Facebook, the issue was with an factory-made nimiety utensil and was not accompanying to any changes to its reeve workforce.

We've strengthened all the posts that were incorrectly removed, which included posts on all capacity - not just those accompanying to COVID-19. This was an issue with an factory-made template that removes links to retaliative websites, however incorrectly removed really a few other posts too.

-- Guy Rosen (@guyro) March 18, 2020

The company ahead communicated that it would remove false claims and conspiracy theories approximate coronavirus in January. Facebook moreover joined Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Reddit, Twitter, and YouTube in publishing a joint statement yesterday committing to fighting coronavirus-related fraud and misinformation.

A new residency reported by Baronial Digital Rights argued on Tuesday that Facebook's customary foxhole to nimiety may not be achieved to adjuration the issue of coronavirus-related misinformation on its platform.

Update Mugging 17th, 8:07PM ET: Boosted context from Facebook.

Update Mugging 17th, 9:52PM ET: Added boosted context from Facebook and clarification that the company has skintight the issue. The headline has been useable to reflect this.