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Facebook notifies users if they engaged with COVID-19 misinformation
December 16, 2020
If you’ve engaged with content that has been determined as misinformation, specifically regarding COVID-19, you might have seen information on your News Feed telling people that the content was removed for violating their policy. This was probably for the most part not very helpful and so they’re now implementing a more direct approach by notifying users directly when they have interacted with a deleted post and leading them to more reliable information from reliable sources in their Coronavirus Information Center.
Social media platforms have taken a tough stance in trying to remove all the misleading information about COVID-19 as our knowledge and understanding of it can sometimes be a matter of life and death. Facebook started cracking down on these posts last April and showing notices in your feed if you happened to like, commented, or reacted to any of these posts. They have redesigned
These proactive notifications that alert people about misinformation is Facebook’s latest attempt to let people know what misinformation has been removed from the site. (Pixabay)
After trying to deal with misinformation on many levels, Facebook is now finally deploying its most potent tool to battle misinformation on Covid-19. Facebook is now going to send notifications to anyone who has commented on, liked or shared any Covid-19 misinformation that has been taken down for violating the platform’s terms of service, according to a report in the FastCompany.
Following this notification, users will be connected to trustworthy sources so as to get the right information.
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Facebook is reportedly cracking down harder on COVID-19 misinformation. The social network is notifying users who have liked, commented on, or shared a post that s been removed for violating Facebook s terms of service relating to the coronavirus pandemic. Then, in an effort to course correct, it will connect those folks with what the company deems trustworthy sources.
This is a more aggressive approach to the practice Facebook launched in April, when it began showing messages in News Feed to people spreading harmful misinformation like falsehoods that drinking bleach cures the virus and theories suggesting physical distancing is ineffective.