ADADIn doing so, Facebook also said it would start steering users to more authoritative sources of information from the World Health Organization. Facebook also said it had provided free advertising credits to help organizations run coronavirus education campaigns. Some of the most pervasive falsehoods on Facebook wrongfully claimed the U.S. government created the coronavirus or peddled inaccurate information about cures that do not actually exist. In response, Facebook began to label these posts and demote them in users’ news feeds, once its fact-checkers debunked the claims. Users searching for it on the site are served with a link to official information provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Source: Washington Post January 31, 2020 02:24 UTC