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Zuckerberg: Facebook to remove information from coronaviruses
Mark Zuckerberg, ceo of Facebook tells Simon Jack of the BBC how the social network faces the coronavirus crisis.
Facebook ceo Mark Zuckerberg told the BBC it had some material that would cause "imminent and immediate harm" for users to be deleted and removed.
"We don't want misinformation to be the content that goes viral even if something doesn't lead to imminent physical injury," he said.
This excluded President Jair Bolsonaro 's statement that scientists "checked" that there was a cure for coronavirus.
It had been taken away because "obviously," he said, it was not true.
Mr. Zuckerberg said: "We are working with independent fact-checkers who have released 7,500 misinformation notes since the Covid outbreak, resulting in 50 million alert label posts provided.
"We know that this is successful because users don't press the content of the alert label 95 percent of the time."
Facebook, however, has insisted that without real imminent damage, the company will allow the freedom of speech on the Internet that it calls the "widest possible opening."
