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Facebook will start steering users who interact with coronavirus misinformation to WHO
NBC "News" / Comcast ^ | April 16, 2020 | By Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins

Posted on 04/16/2020 6:34:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Facebook will begin to alert users after they’ve been exposed to misinformation about the coronavirus, the company announced Thursday, the latest in a series of actions meant to curtail the spread of wrong or misleading claims related to the pandemic.

Users who have liked, commented on or reacted to coronavirus misinformation that has been flagged as “harmful” by Facebook and removed will now be directed to a website debunking coronavirus myths from the World Health Organization.

The announcement came in a blog post written by Guy Rosen, Facebook's vice president of integrity.

“We want to connect people who may have interacted with harmful misinformation about the virus with the truth from authoritative sources in case they see or hear these claims again off of Facebook,” Rosen wrote.

The new alert will not identify the specific post containing harmful misinformation, according to a Facebook spokesperson, who said the company was relying on research that shows repeated exposure - even in fact checks - can sometimes reinforce misinformed beliefs.

The move by Facebook is just the most recent step in an aggressive and coordinated response by it and other tech companies to promote facts and guidance from reputable sources about the spread of the coronavirus and combat the glut of false information that the WHO in February warned had become a “massive infodemic.”

Facebook has also provided the WHO and other health organizations fighting the coronavirus with free ads and continues to ban ads that promote fake coronavirus cures.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chicomstooges; china; coronavirus; facebook; fascistbook; fascistbuch; fecesbook; technotyranny; virus; who; xibook
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To: JayGalt

I was thinking the same thing.


21 posted on 04/16/2020 6:50:23 AM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer


   Big Brother Knows Best

And, of course, that's BS.


22 posted on 04/16/2020 6:52:27 AM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: cranked

I disabled mine a long time age. Saw what it was and the damage it could do to our people and our country.


23 posted on 04/16/2020 6:52:44 AM PDT by jazzlite (,)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

By misinformation, I take it they mean things that don’t fit the narrative.


24 posted on 04/16/2020 6:53:55 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: cranked

Fakebook


25 posted on 04/16/2020 6:55:27 AM PDT by Baldwin
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Facebook’s motto. “Ignorance is Strength”.


26 posted on 04/16/2020 6:56:00 AM PDT by Flick Lives (A liberal is someone who worries that somewhere, someone is enjoying life.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How dare anyone have a dissenting opinion against their demi-god masters!


27 posted on 04/16/2020 6:56:47 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

1984


28 posted on 04/16/2020 6:57:10 AM PDT by rolling_stone (tshf)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And MILLIONS of low-info voters, and childless Demonrat cat ladies, and soy boys, will buy the propaganda of “WHO good, Orange Man bad”.


29 posted on 04/16/2020 7:00:54 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Politics is the continuation of war by other means. --Clausewitz)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I believe you meant to source it to:

NBC "News"/CHIComcast

Thanks for the post.

30 posted on 04/16/2020 7:07:56 AM PDT by vg0va3
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“...a website debunking coronavirus myths from the World Health Organization.”

Read that again. Sounds like they’re debunking CV myths that came from the WHO — not that WHO is debunking myths. Gee, maybe those English classes were important.


31 posted on 04/16/2020 7:15:02 AM PDT by LateBoomer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Does anybody still use Facebook anymore?

I still have an account because other apps use my Facebook login, but I only log into Facebook maybe once per week, and I haven’t really paid attention to my wall in months.


32 posted on 04/16/2020 7:15:04 AM PDT by beancounter13
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wrongthink will be corrected.


33 posted on 04/16/2020 7:15:51 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Facebook is evil.


34 posted on 04/16/2020 7:18:47 AM PDT by OKSooner (Don't buy from China. Don't buy from Microsoft. Don't do Facebook.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
...will now be directed to a website debunking coronavirus myths from the World Health Organization

Something's wrong. Clicking thru to CNN's FB page still takes me to CNN - isn't FB supposed to keep me away from these fake news sites now?

C_E
35 posted on 04/16/2020 7:22:26 AM PDT by clueless_expert
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

F Facebook.

When being a censor just isn’t enough, they go full snitch.

Never used it, never will.

F Facebook.


36 posted on 04/16/2020 7:28:01 AM PDT by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: cranked
How mofos can still use Facebook and Twitter is beyond me. #mindblown

FascistBuch is one thing - you mostly have to give up your name and personal info to them.

Twitter, you can be anonymous, and that's where the war is at.

37 posted on 04/16/2020 7:28:15 AM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: Godzilla
Guy Rosen, Facebook's vice president of integrity

In the same sense that the clinton administration was the most ethical ever, and the obama administration the most transparent evah...

38 posted on 04/16/2020 7:31:03 AM PDT by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Curiously, Zuckerberg’s in-laws are Chinese refugees.

They fled from Vietnam during the massive “boat people” exodus in the mid-1970s.

His first generation American wife is obviously brilliant.

She was valedictorian of her high school, a Harvard graduate in biology and Spanish, and a M.D. from the University of San Francisco, which is often ranked in the Top 5 USA med schools.

39 posted on 04/16/2020 7:31:15 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: backwoods-engineer
And MILLIONS of low-info voters, and childless Demonrat cat ladies, and soy boys, will buy the propaganda of “WHO good, Orange Man bad”.


Orange Man Bad, Yellow Man Good

I hope somebody sees this before it gets nuked...

40 posted on 04/16/2020 7:38:44 AM PDT by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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