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Chris Smith
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- Facebook announced on Monday that it would ban vaccine misinformation from its platforms, after years of allowing false vaccine-related claims to spread on social media.
- The move targets coronavirus vaccine-related claims and could help spread genuine information about the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination campaigns.
- Facebook will also ban general vaccine-related claims that are untrue, such as posts and pages saying that “vaccines are toxic, dangerous or cause autism.”
Facebook has been a source of harmful content for years, and the company has yet to find a way to address the matter perfectly. But Facebook is, at least, trying to do it. Policing user-generated content on social media seems an almost impossible task. But it should still be a priority in a world where it’s been proven that foreign actors with malicious intentions would take advantage of social media features, especially Facebook's, to manipulate people.
The novel coronavirus pandemic sparked a massive wave of fake news that went viral on social media, Facebook’s apps included. The company has taken steps to limit the spread of misleading COVID-19 content last year, although it wasn’t decisive action that would deter people from propagating conspiracy theories and false news about the pandemic. Facebook now announced that it’s taking a firmer stance against misinformation about vaccines, some two months later than it should have done it. Better late than never.
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Facebook finally bans vaccine misinformation on its platforms originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 9 Feb 2021 at 06:50:20 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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