Facebook cracks down on vaccine misinformation
In a blog post, the Menlo Park, Calif. company said it will reject any ads containing misinformation about vaccines, remove any targeted advertising options like 'vaccine controversies,' and will no longer show or recommend content containing this type of misinformation on Instagram Explore or hashtag pages."
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Combatting Vaccine Misinformation
We are working to tackle vaccine misinformation on Facebook by reducing its distribution and providing people with authoritative information on the topic.
[...] Leading global health organizations, such as the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, have publicly identified verifiable vaccine hoaxes. If these vaccine hoaxes appear on Facebook, we will take action against them.
For example, if a group or Page admin posts this vaccine misinformation, we will exclude the entire group or Page from recommendations, reduce these groups and Pages’ distribution in News Feed and Search, and reject ads with this misinformation.
We also believe in providing people with additional context so they can decide whether to read, share, or engage in conversations about information they see on Facebook. We are exploring ways to give people more accurate information from expert organizations about vaccines at the top of results for related searches, on Pages discussing the topic, and on invitations to join groups about the topic. We will have an update on this soon.
We are fully committed to the safety of our community and will continue to expand on this work.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 14 2019, @05:52PM
They are? While I grant that Trump has continued to increase deficit spending, the points are pretty independent from one another. Health care can be made better and cheaper by removing a lot of the regulatory burden surrounding research and treatment, and introducing competition at the hospital level (plus about a dozen or so other things, most again which don't have much to do with the other two points). "Obamacare taxes" don't generate significant revenue for the US and thus, can't generate significant deficits for the US. And decreasing the deficit and national debt wouldn't have any impact on the health care industry (though it would have to reduce Medicare benefits sooner or later).