Facebook COVID-19 Misinformation Biggest Challenge to Vaccine Drive, Says Papua New Guinea Health Minister When Facebook hit Papua New Guinea everybody became an expert. By Agence France-Presse | Updated: 2 April 2021 12:55 IST
Facebook said it was actively removing false claims about the COVID-19 vaccines
Highlights Facebook is our biggest conspiracy theorist platform, said Jelta Wong
Wong said a major hurdle is convincing people to get the COVID-19 vaccine
Papua New Guinea s health minister on Thursday called disinformation spread on Facebook the biggest challenge to efforts to curb the rampant spread of COVID-19 in the poor Pacific nation.
Jelta Wong said dangerous posts and anti-vax conspiracy theories were hampering the drive to get people to seek treatment and testing for the disease as infection numbers soar.
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