Facebook will now take down posts claiming vaccines cause autism

  • Thread starter Thread starter The Verge RSS
  • Start date Start date
T

The Verge RSS

Guest
Author: Ian Carlos Campbell

acastro_180806_1777_facebook_0001.0.jpg

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Facebook is expanding what false claims it will remove from its platforms related to COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccines, and vaccines in general starting today. The company began removing debunked COVID-19 claims in December of last year and notifying customers when they had interacted with a post that has false information that same month. But now the list of potential claims that could get a post removed has grown.

Highlights from the new expanded list of false COVID-19 and vaccine-related claims that will be removed include:

  • COVID-19 is man-made
  • Vaccines are not effective at preventing the disease they were created to protect against
  • It’s safer to get a disease than to get its vaccine
  • Vaccines are dangerous, toxic, or cause autism

Facebook...

Continue reading…

Continue reading...