Posted on 04/16/2020 6:34:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Facebook will begin to alert users after they’ve been exposed to misinformation about the coronavirus, the company announced Thursday, the latest in a series of actions meant to curtail the spread of wrong or misleading claims related to the pandemic.
Users who have liked, commented on or reacted to coronavirus misinformation that has been flagged as “harmful” by Facebook and removed will now be directed to a website debunking coronavirus myths from the World Health Organization.
The announcement came in a blog post written by Guy Rosen, Facebook's vice president of integrity.
“We want to connect people who may have interacted with harmful misinformation about the virus with the truth from authoritative sources in case they see or hear these claims again off of Facebook,” Rosen wrote.
The new alert will not identify the specific post containing harmful misinformation, according to a Facebook spokesperson, who said the company was relying on research that shows repeated exposure - even in fact checks - can sometimes reinforce misinformed beliefs.
The move by Facebook is just the most recent step in an aggressive and coordinated response by it and other tech companies to promote facts and guidance from reputable sources about the spread of the coronavirus and combat the glut of false information that the WHO in February warned had become a “massive infodemic.”
Facebook has also provided the WHO and other health organizations fighting the coronavirus with free ads and continues to ban ads that promote fake coronavirus cures.
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How mofos can still use Facebook and Twitter is beyond me. #mindblown
XIbook
“You ask me if I have a God complex. Let me tell you something: I am God”
So, Astronomy departments should redirect their students to Astrology?
WHO. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Except for the media and congress, of course.
They won’t steer me. They kicked me off Facebook a long time ago.
Facebook and Communism have one thing in common. Top down authority were the those at the top attempt to micromanage all those below them.
It can not be done (effectively).
Besides WHO has become a Chinese propaganda organization and I would not trust anything they had to say on any subject.
Hey Facebook, Steer This!
“The new alert will not identify the specific post containing harmful misinformation, according to a Facebook spokesperson, who said the company was relying on research that shows repeated exposure - even in fact checks - can sometimes reinforce misinformed beliefs.”
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They are addicted just like an alcoholic.
This piece reads like “ Babylon Bee.”
Because we are trying to get some truth out to friends and neighbors who dont sit around reading FR all day. You think the stuff we read and know is known by more than a tiny fraction of the world? It’s a way to at least try to bypass the big media propaganda outlets. Your high and mighty attitude doesnt help anyone
Integrity - LOL is this the Onion?
I had this show up on my news feed yesterday. I figured out their motivation right away since they pronounced WHO the authority. They have stories from Time, VOX, and CBS. That’s all I needed to see.
I watch the president’s daily briefings on Facebook.
Why not redirect to Pravda (Truth) and Izvestia (Approved Messages)?
Since the “facts” are changing daily, it is curious but unsurprising that they are arrogating to themselves the right to define information and misinformation.
I’m with you 50%. I closed my facebook account ~5years ago. Facebook is fascist.
Twitter is very useful. Lots of conservative voices sharing information. Twitter plays games with blocking, with followers & like numbers but people work around that. I started on twitter when President Trump did, to follow him. Gradually I added people he retweeted, his cabinet and political commenters that added to my understanding and linked to data.
Twitter is very useful in the fight because you can post information and links that screw with the lefts talking points. Thousands of people re exposed to the truth. I know because Twitter lets you check the number of people who saw each post. I’m sure there are people who use twitter other ways but for what I am looking for it is a good resource if you keep your eyes open and use other sources to corroborate new information.
Good movie
Apparently Zuckerberg is a whore for China Corona Communist money.
Disgusting.
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