Facebook is recently packed with a lot of misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, that’s because there is: Between April and June, the company removed 7 million posts for spreading harmful misinformation about coronavirus. It added tags to an additional 98 million post, which were deemed false by fact-checkers, but didn’t rise to the level of permanent termination.
The company released the statistics alongside its community standards enforcement report, which shows content takedowns on the social network. Facebook doesn’t typically include misinformation statistics in these reports, but the company ahs included stricter rules for claims about COVID-19 that pose harm in the future.
The company removes posts that spread false claims about cures and treatment for coronavirus, as well as other misinformation health organizations say is dangerous. The company has also taken measures to set aside credible health information, including terminating common rumors about the virus and pushing out PSAs about wearing masks.
Despite Facebook’s efforts to stop these harmful posts, misinformation about the pandemic has been rampant on both Facebook and Instagram, and the company is forced to test its stricter policies even more.
In May, a viral video that falsely claimed masks make people fall sick and that the coronavirus was created in a lab racked up millions of views before Facebook removed it. The same thing repeated itself last in July, which falsely claimed that the anti-malaria drug ‘hydroxychloroquine’ was a cure for COVID-19, got more than 20 million views in less than 24 hours before Facebook took it down.
Last week, Facebook removed the post from Donald Trump after he claimed that children are almost immune to coronavirus. That video was also online for several hours and was viewed millions of times before it was removed.
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