HOAXES: There Is No Facebook Drug Task Force, Nor Will Users Be Charged $2.99/Month
There is no such thing as the Facebook Drug Task Force, and any and all stories from satirical site National Report should be taken with several grains of salt, Hoax-Slayer reminded Facebook users.
There is no such thing as the Facebook Drug Task Force, and any and all stories from satirical site National Report should be taken with several grains of salt, Hoax-Slayer reminded Facebook users.
National Report published this post about one month ago, and unsuspecting users of the social network have shared it in the belief that it was a legitimate news story. The post claims that Facebook will launch the Facebook Drug Task Force Oct. 1, and that the FDTF “will be monitoring all postings and messages created by its users,” adding fictitious quotes from Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Drug Enforcement Agency spokesperson Paul Horner.
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