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Combatting Vaccine Misinformation on Facebook

posted by chromas on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the threw-the-facebook-out-with-the-vax-water dept.

realDonaldTrump writes:

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."

upstart writes:

Submitted via IRC for FatPhil

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.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by fyngyrz on Thursday March 14 2019, @03:42PM (3 children)

    by fyngyrz (6567) on Thursday March 14 2019, @03:42PM (#814259) Journal

    If you do it the other way around you kind of deserve your darwin award.

    The nature of the problem is that anti-vax types are giving their kid(s), and/or other people, the Darwin award as well.

    I'm right there with you when a person's choice results in their demise, disability, or damage. When it results in the same for others who have not consented, now I have a pretty serious problem with it — it's not evolution, it's enemy action.

    In the overall POV one takes with evolution in the wild, "it's natural" is correct, and the morality of the process is pretty easy to wave off (until we screw with nature enough so that it's not a process of "the wild.")

    But when you have intelligent actors, and a society they exist within, I maintain that there is every reason to exert control over those who would, through ignorance and stupidity, impose on the health, safety and security of others without their informed consent.

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  • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @06:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @06:20PM (#814357)

    fuck you, bitch.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @08:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @08:02PM (#814414)

    When it comes to Darwin Award, whether it's you or your offspring receiving it, it still does its purpose.

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday March 15 2019, @12:49PM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Friday March 15 2019, @12:49PM (#814731) Homepage
    Regarding your final paragraph, I view this to be simply part of the modern Social Contract. The original Hobbesian idea of a social contract may predate any kind of medical science, but there's no reason to exclude "health" from "security".
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