No more tittle-tattle about coronavirus vaccines on Facebook
To restraint the ropes of misleading information on Covid-19, Facebook is all set to choke back the fake contents about vaccines from its platform.
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For several months misinformation on coronavirus and its vaccines have been sharing on FB by its users. However, the social media site is working actively to curb down such participation for which deployment of various teams is in a process to watchdog the content postings and analyse their authentication.
Tech giant Facebook says on the matter that it will snuff out the posts claiming the virus to be a man-made disease, statements stating that vaccines are ineffective in preventing the disease.
Those posts will also be removed that claimed that it is safer to be infected with the disease than to get vaccinated. The other faulty claims like vaccines can cause autism shall also be dumped.
The take of the platform will save us from the rumours, fake news and information that seems to be more harmful than the virus!
Facebook says, “We will begin enforcing this policy immediately, with a particular focus on Pages, groups, and accounts that violate these rules, and we’ll continue to expand our enforcement over the coming weeks. Groups, Pages, and accounts on Facebook and Instagram that repeatedly share these debunked claims may be removed altogether. We are also requiring some admins for groups with admins or members who have violated our COVID-19 policies to temporarily approve all posts within their group. Claims about COVID-19 or vaccines that do not violate these policies will still be eligible for review by our third-party fact-checkers, and if they are rated false, they will be labelled and demoted."
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FB also aims to improve its search result in addition to the removal of fake contents on vaccines.
For example, if you will search for vaccine or Covid-19 related posts on Facebook, the site will try to show relevant, authoritative results on the top of its search terms. It will also let you connect with expert information about treatment and solutions via third-party resources.
Also, Instagram accounts spreading fake news on vaccines will also be bearing the same treatment as that of Facebook's. "On Instagram, in addition to surfacing authoritative results in Search, in the coming weeks we’re making it harder to find accounts in search that discourage people from getting vaccinated," Facebook stated.
