EFE.- Facebook announced this Monday that from now on it will censor any false information about the Covid-19 waves vaccinations that users share in groups, pages or in their personal accounts, prohibiting everything that has been denied by the health authorities.
Thus, as of this Monday, comments until now allowed in the red social and in Instagram (of his property), like the Covid-19 was created by humans, that vaccinations they are not effective, they are more dangerous than the disease itself, or they are toxic, dangerous and cause autism.
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These prohibitions in Facebook not only include vaccines against Covid-19, but cover all of them in general, so any comment from the anti-vaccine movement.
“We will begin to apply this policy immediately, focusing especially on pages, groups and accounts that do not respect these rules, and we will continue to expand surveillance in the coming weeks,” the company said in a statement.
Facebook will have zero tolerance on fake news
Until now, Facebook banned paid ads that defend theories of this type and, since December, had already suppressed some comments that contained false information about the vaccine from Covid-19.
However, this Monday’s change implies, in practice, a policy of zero tolerance regarding this issue.
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Since Facebook, Company who drives Mark Zuckerberg, they assured that before adopting this new policy they had conversations with the World Health Organization (WHO) and with “top-level health organizations.”
In parallel, the company Menlo Park (California) announced an online information campaign to tell people where and when they can be vaccinated, an operation similar to the ones it carries out to inform the voting process in elections.
It also pledged to donate $ 120 million in advertising credits to governments and organizations to report on the vaccinations.
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