Facebook is expanding the list of ‘false’ and ‘unmasked’ claims about the coronavirus and vaccines that will be grounds for banning the platform, while launching the largest ‘official’ vaccination campaign in the world.
In accordance with the community standards policy, posting with “Unmasked claims” that Covid-19 is “Man-made or manufactured”, or that vaccines are ineffective, unsafe, dangerous or cause autism will be removed starting on Monday, announced VP of Integrity Guy Rosen on the Facebook blog.
The new policy was implemented after consultations with the World Health Organization (WHO) and others, and will help Facebook “Continue to take aggressive measures against disinformation” about Covid-19 and vaccines, Rosen added.
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Even if they do not violate any of the listed policies, posts about Covid-19 or vaccines will still be subject to review by “Third-party fact checkers” and labeled and “Downgraded” if classified as false.
Meanwhile, the company’s head of health, Kang-Xing Jin, has announced that Facebook – along with Instagram and WhatsApp, which he owns – will be “By carrying out the largest worldwide campaign to promote reliable information on [Covid-19] vaccines. “
Besides “Expanding our efforts to remove false claims,” Facebook is giving $ 120 million in advertising credits to ministries of health, NGOs and UN agencies to send vaccines and health information to “Billions of people around the world,”And providing data “To inform effective vaccine delivery and educational efforts to build trust” about vaccines.
The social media giant will also help people “Finding out where and when they can be vaccinated – similar to how we help people find information on how to vote during elections.”
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Taking pride in removing “More than 12 million pieces of content” that contained “Misinformation that can lead to imminent physical damage,” and successfully influencing millions of people around the world to wear masks, Jin said the company’s focus in 2021 is to build confidence and safety in vaccines using the same “Perceptions and best practices.”
In the United States, Facebook will partner with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to achieve “American indigenous communities, black communities and Latin American communities” And use “Scientific and evidence-based content that addresses issues and concerns” they may have about vaccines.
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WHO scientists are currently in Wuhan, China – where the virus was first detected in December 2019 – trying to establish how it infected humans. The closest cousin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was found in 2013 among horseshoe bats in the Chinese province of Yunnan, about 1,200 miles (1,900 km) away.
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