Facebook vs. Vaccine Misinformation

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Facebook vs. Vaccine Misinformation
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There is no hard evidence to prove if those
"Anti-Vax" statements are true, but it still
spread like wildfire in social media. This is
alarming since such actions can endanger the
health of many people. Facebook shared the same
sentiment and decided to lend a helping hand in
combating those contents by implementing changes
in its platform.

• Those Anti-Vax posts or ads that you see on
  Facebook might be gone sooner than you think.
  Why? That is because Facebook has started doing
  actions to remove misleading materials related to
  Anti-Vaccines. A few were already sampled by
  their countermeasures like the 3,500 Facebook
  pages, accounts, and groups that have already
  been removed for delving on such controversial
  topic.

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Here are those changes

• 1. For groups or pages that posts misleading
  information regarding vaccines, their rankings
  will be decreased in News Feed and Search. They
  will also not appear in suggestions when
  searching.2. Ads about vaccine controversies
  and other related topics will be rejected. If
  they continue to promote that kind of materials,
  their ad account will be shut down.3.
  Misleading materials related to vaccines will not
  be shown in Instagram Explore or hashtag
  pages.4. Instead of showing misinformative
  materials, they will be seeking ways to spread
  the right information instead.

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• These actions, aggressive as they may seem, are
  limited compared to Pinterest's deletion of
  Anti-Vax contents that it detects. Still, this is
  a huge step for Facebook. Before, they stood by
  the mentality that they should let the platform
  run by itself without much help from them, but
  now, they are willing to grab the reins and steer
  the issue on the right path. It also shows that
  they care about social media literacy.Overall,
  it is a good thing that social media platforms
  are doing actions to filter out this kind of
  contents. Still, at the end of the day, it is our
  responsibility to investigate first before
  sharing or liking posts

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Source

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