We ve all seen misinformation online, but does reporting it actually do anything? The world s social media giants promised to crack down on harmful COVID-19 misinformation that has proliferated since the pandemic began, but a Marketplace investigation found that when problematic posts were flagged, most weren t labelled or removed. Between Feb. 3 and Feb. 16,
Marketplace producers combed through Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter and used the user tools to flag and report more than 800 posts that breach each company s policies that cover, among other things, posting misinformation. The result: about 12 per cent of the posts were labelled with warnings or taken down entirely. That number jumped to 53 per cent only after