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The Technology 202: Facebook is cracking down on all vaccine misinformation after years of pressure Cat Zakrzewski
with Aaron Schaffer Facebook says it’s going to remove common misleading claims about vaccines after allowing health misinformation to flourish on its platform for years. The company is going farther than its decision in December to remove claims about the coronavirus vaccines debunked by government health agencies amid public health efforts to boost confidence in the immunizations. Now the company will start prohibiting claims including that vaccines are toxic, cause autism or that it’s safer to get the disease they re intended to prevent.
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Bell Pottinger is dead, but disinformation that preys on divisions in South Africa remains. Some say social media users should ignore disinformation – the deliberate spread of false information to cause harm – because any engagement helps malicious actors spread their messages. But is doing nothing really the only option, particularly when disengagement is what some of these campaigns hope to achieve?
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“Facebook and Twitter were the reason we won this thing. Twitter for Mr. Trump, and Facebook for fundraising,” adding that Targeted ads on Facebook helped generate the bulk of the $250 million the first Trump campaign raised online.
Trump dominated online discourse, both in the 2016 and the 2020 elections, write Paul M. Barrett and J. Grant Sims, the authors and it’s not just Trump. A previous 2020 study found that conservatives in general ruled online discourse for this hot topic, with users sharing the most viral right-wing content about Black Lives Matter about 10 times more than the most popular liberal posts on the topic. A good example is the Black Lives Matter Facebook page, which has 0.7 million fans far less than the Blue Lives Matter page set in response to it. “Even anecdotal evidence of supposed bias tends to crumble under close examination,” the researchers write.