Should false information about Covid-19 and vaccination be allowed on Facebook again? In a press release published on Tuesday, July 26, the American company openly asks the question. She announces that she is appealing to her “Overview Board”, an organization she finances responsible for taking an “outsider” look at her decisions, to find out if their rules should always ban such postings.
Theoretical measurements
Facebook, which claims to have removed some 25 million content since the start of the pandemic, thus evokes for the first time the end of its measures to remove false content and its replacement by a more flexible procedure, as a simple attached warning. to the contents. In his opinion, this hypothesis is justified by a now more peaceful situation, in highly vaccinated countries “where life is slowly returning to normal.”
Like all major social platforms, Facebook has implemented measures to combat disinformation since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, with an effectiveness that is, however, difficult to estimate. The social network has thus hidden an unflattering report on the success of false information on its platform, in particular on vaccination against Covid-19.
In France, conspiracy videos have sometimes been at the top of the most popular content on vaccination. Like Twitter, Facebook declined to answer Arcom’s questions about figures regarding the extent of misinformation on its services.
Source: BFM TV
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