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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @06:45PM (2 children)
Let's go further...
Free market, proven misinformation. So most of ads for "so muh financial gain" down.
All appearance-related products. It's known that most of them do not work, especially if it's a targeted ad towards specifically ugly people.
Anti-smoking campaigns. There are papers showing that cigarettes with filter are healthy as... they disinfect respiratory tract. And no, it's not some pay-to-publish paper printed who knows where, it's in reviewed scientific journals. They were around until 1970s.
So, what next: Religion. Know how it works, can be shot at first sight with these "misinformation" criteria.
And of course democracy.
So, there is a hope, we may end with an ad-less Internet.
In the meantime if you try to debunk these "heavy metals" hypothesis and you ask medical companies are there any of these metals used in production, what are their devices composed of, you get only lawyer's barking full of mafia-like threats and non legally binding lies like "good practices".
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 14 2019, @08:46PM (1 child)
And?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @10:04PM
Or!