Social-Media
Facebook now displays a warning before sharing COVID-19 articles.
A new notification screen will provide a context for Facebook 's latest attempt to help fight the spreading of potentially harmful misinformation COVID-19 on the article or other link, like it was shared first, and its source.
The purpose, said Facebook, is to assist people to understand the information and source before the content is shared by persons in our COVID-19 Info Centre, ensuring the access of global health authorities for people to trustworthy information on COVID-19.
It builds on the existing news releases that the Platform launched in June to help reduce the propagation of older links that are routinely reflected in the way that current events can be misrepresented.
This new notification screen is part of a series of ongoing actions Facebook has taken since March to prevent its platform from becoming a conduit for theoretical and other disinformation related to dangerous coronavirus conspiracy. At the onset of the pandemic, Vetted Coronavirus Information was placed in the top of the News Feed by trusted health authorities and the above-referred information center COVID-19.
However, Facebook has taken more active measures since, including banishing anti-mask groups and placing anti-malfact messages in the news feeds of users who may have engaging with fake coronavirus stories. The latter has spoken against the rapid spread of misinformation and conspiracy. In May, the "Plandemic" video became viral, which caused Facebook's efforts to moderate more headaches. Only last month, a new Facebook News partner video of Breitbart News that contains false information about coronavirus cures and measures to combat the spread of coronavirus was viral. Later, Facebook said it would examine why the video was alive for so much time.
Facebook says that it will exempt certain information sources to ensure that trustworthy and helpful links are not captured in the screen in order to avoid spreading old, outdated and only pure false information. "We wish, in that respect, to ensure that the provision of creditable health authority information does not slow down, so that content posted by public authorities and recognized international health organisations, such as the World Health Organization, is not notified," said the company.
