Facebook warns users that'socialized' with COVID-19 misinformation

Included in Facebook's continuing struggle against COVID-19 misinformation, It is going to start alerting users if they have enjoyed, reacted to, or commented on misinformation, which has since been eliminated. The alarms will look in News Feed, and they'll contain links to COVID-19 myths supplied by the World Health Organization (WHO). You can expect to find the alerts in the forthcoming weeks.

Facebook has taken similar steps previously. A couple of years back, it started notifying users whenever they enjoyed or followed bogus pages created by the Internet Research Agency -- that the Russian troll farm accountable for meddling in the 2016 election. Facebook has also advocated users that search for vaccine-related articles to visit credible resources, such as the WHO and CDC.

Last year, Facebook declared a three-part strategy for handling"debatable" articles: Remove, reduce, inform. Facebook has taken steps to eliminate and reduce COVID-19 misinformation, and these efforts fulfill the"inform" part of the plan.

According to a blog article, Facebook States that in March, it displayed warnings on about 40 million Posts associated with COVID-19, according to about 4,000 articles flagged Allegedlywhen users saw those warning Labels, 95% of their time, they did not view the material.