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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: 3, Touché) by PartTimeZombie on Friday March 15 2019, @01:14AM (2 children)
Holy moly!
That was hugely entertaining! It might well be the weirdest flat-earth debate I've ever seen. You both seem to hold that the earth is not flat, but the A/C is also arguing that it is flat at the same time, if you squint at it.
Or something. Also physics. Awesome. Made my day.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday March 15 2019, @03:00AM (1 child)
(Score: 1) by FatPhil on Friday March 15 2019, @02:38PM
I think the problem he has is that he doesn't understand that he curvature of spacetime is the curvature of 4-D spacetime, and that's a different concept from the geometric curvature of a 3-D subspace taken at an arbitrary observer's instant of time. The former induces the latter, but, depending on the observer, the latter can have a huge range of different properties, including that of what is parallel to what. All observers of interest or relevance will view the spacial curvature of the earth to be a real thing. Some (such as cosmic rays) might see the earth superficially as a pancake, but even those would be forced to admit that it is still fatter at the (possibly-ever-moving) middle and then narrows to a sharp edge at the (ever-changing) horizon.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves