Coronavirus: Facebook alerts users exposed to misinformation
A Facebook spokesman said the move will"connect people who may have interacted with harmful misinformation about the virus with the truth from authoritative sources, in case they see or hear these claims again off of Facebook".
The group found some of the most dangerous falsehoods had received hundreds of thousands of views, including claims like"black people are resistant to coronavirus" and"Coronavirus is destroyed by chlorine dioxide". It is worse in some other languages, with 68% of Italian-language content, 70% of Spanish-language content, and 50% of Portuguese-language content not labelled as false
Fadi Quran, Campaign Director at Avaaz said:"Facebook sits at the epicenter of the misinformation crisis. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and chief executive, defended his company's work in an online post saying:"On Facebook and Instagram, we've now directed more than two billion people to authoritative health resources via our Covid-19 Information Center and educational pop-ups, with more than 350 million people clicking through to learn more.
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