![]() “So we’re removing false claims and conspiracy theories that have been flagged by leading global health organizations.” “As our community standards make clear, it’s not okay to share something that puts people in danger,” Zuckerberg wrote. But the company was already grappling with the spread of misinformation and myths about Covid-19. Approved vaccines were still months away. At the time, there were only around 90,000 recorded cases globally and about 3,100 known deaths, most of them in China. The organization called on big tech firms to give it a direct line to flag posts on their platforms that could harm people’s health.ĬEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on Facebook on March 3, 2020, that his company was working with the WHO and other leading health organizations to help promote accurate information about the virus. The World Health Organization (WHO) began describing Covid-19 misinformation as an “infodemic” in the early stages of the pandemic last year, amid a flood of social media posts on conspiracy theories about the origins of the virus, dangerous advice about faulty treatments and unreliable reports on vaccines. The big takeaways from the Facebook Papers (Photo by Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images) Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images A consortium of news organizations, including CNN, has reviewed the redacted versions received by Congress.Ī giant digital sign is seen at Facebook's corporate headquarters campus in Menlo Park, California, on October 23, 2019. The documents were included as part of disclosures made to the Securities and Exchange Commission and provided to Congress in redacted form by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen’s legal counsel. “Our ability to detect vaccine hesitancy comments is bad in English and basically non-existent elsewhere,” one of the March 2021 reports stated. “Our internal systems are not yet identifying, demoting and/or removing anti-vaccine comments often enough,” the report pointed out.Īdditional reports a month later raised concerns about the prevalence of vaccine hesitancy - which in some cases may amount to misinformation - in comments, which employees said Facebook’s systems were less equipped to moderate than posts. “We have no idea about the scale of the problem when it comes to comments,” an internal research report posted to Facebook’s internal site in February 2021, a year into the pandemic, noted. ![]() ![]() (FB) documents suggest a disconnect between what the company has said publicly about its overall response to Covid-19 misinformation and some of its employees’ findings concerning the issue. In doing so, it claimed that “more than 2 billion people have viewed authoritative information about COVID-19 and vaccines on Facebook, which is more than any other place on the internet.” In public, Facebook has touted the resources it has dedicated to tackling Covid-19 and vaccine misinformation, even scolding US President Joe Biden for his harsh criticism of the company’s handling of the issue. ![]()
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