Facebook will soon let you know if you shared or interacted with dangerous coronavirus misinformation on the social media platform
A 3D printed Facebook logo is seen in front of displayed coronavirus disease words in this illustration taken March 24, 2020.
The alert, which will start appearing on Facebook in the coming weeks, will direct users to a site where the World Health Organization lists and debunks virus myths and rumors. The company disclosed Thursday that it put more than 40 million warning labels in March over videos, posts or articles about the coronavirus that fact-checking organisations have determined are false or misleading. The number includes duplicate claims — the labels were based on 4,000 fact checks.“It’s a big indicator that people are trusting the fact checkers,” said Baybars Orsek, the director of the International Fact-Checking Network.
Still, conspiracy theories, claims about unverified treatments, and misinformation about coronavirus vaccines continue to pop up on the site daily — sometimes circumventing the safeguards Facebook has implemented. “A lot of what we know about how people scroll through their news feed not clicking on things, they still reading posts or headlines, without clicking on the link,” Edgerly said.
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