Facebook insists pages punished for promoting vaccine misinformation

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“These platforms can be a powerful tool for good, or they can be a vehicle for falsehoods and lies, and they need to decide what side they want to be on,” he said.

“If you are a Facebook group, or a Facebook page, who repeatedly posts about this kind of debunked information about vaccinations, we will reduce the distribution of not just those posts but about everything that you post to ensure that we are being appropriately comprehensive and aggressive in trying to reduce the spread of this type of information,” he said.

“Disinformation is a very complex problem that includes many different areas of tech, policy, piracy, free speech and platform liability. It’s a very, very complicated topic that needs a lot of nuance,” she said.

 

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