SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook Inc said it will take down misinformation about China’s fast-spreading coronavirus, in a rare departure from its usual approach to dubious health content that is presenting a fresh challenge for social media companies.
Nearly 12,000 people have been infected in China, according to local health authorities, and more than 130 cases reported in at least 25 other countries and regions. It also puts it at odds with other major U.S.-based social networks. Alphabet Inc’s YouTube, which has 2 billion monthly users and Twitter and Reddit, which have hundreds of millions of users, confirmed they do not consider inaccurate information about health to be a violation of their policies.
Rumors about the coronavirus have also spread widely on Chinese social networks, which are usually quick to remove sensitive content but have in recent days allowed an unusual level of public criticism over the government’s handling of the crisis. A spokeswoman for Tencent Holdings Inc’s Chinese messaging app WeChat, which has 1.15 billion monthly users, told Reuters the company was removing posts containing coronavirus-related misinformation.
If Facebook existed during the soviet era, they'd probably be removing posts and banning accounts for 'spreading rumors' about Chernobyl
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I’m so sick of FB 😷..despite being an absolutely incredible platform for amazing connections between humankind, the bad is starting to get the upper hand & notoriety of the FB platform. And despite “privacy policies”, hackers unite..😞🙄
Zukerberg-Gresham Law:
The Ministry of Truth
Oh, so Facebook is capable of removing misinformation. It just chooses not to when it comes to realDonaldTrump and Russian bots paid by Putin. Got it.
Mind your own business. Let the people talk to each other. The people knew about the seriousness of the coronarovirus before the WHO and media companies like yourself. So please, WeThePeople do not need YOUR* misinformation. Oh ya, one more thing... FreeZerohedge
Wow so Facebook can respond real-time to epidemic fake news but not a fake news epidemic. I got ya. DeleteFacebook
During the time of Lunar New Year, the Spring festival of China, a deadly outbreak of the coronavirus has emerged in the city of Wuhan. The question then arises,'What is the coronavirus? How dangerous is it?.' Facts Coronavirus Health Epidemic
Another words, don't question the official story
Fact: China hastily building hospitals, Americans being held 2 weeks instead of 3 days in quarantine. Travel bans from most countries to China.
FB the mother of all Fuss-ups !!!!
Reuters itself is an agent of forlorn fear. coronarvirus coronovirusoutbreak
Censorship all the while now.
This is laughable. No one knows. So how does Facebook know what is Mis information?
Misinformation? Or censoring the real seriousness of the global spreading?
Can Facebook just remove themselves? The world was a better place before social media. Actually it was exactly the same we just didn’t have to hear about it 24/7.
Looks like the China altered a virus(coronavirus) that escaped. Some say it had 5 altered parts in dna from the hiv virus!! zerohedge
they need to remove every post on there
Social media might just be the downfall of humanity
Surprise, surprise, it's Facebook again 😒.
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Who made Facebook the arbiters of what is or isn't true? Disgusting censorship, if they were to remove all 'misinformation' they'd have to ban every single Leftist account ever made.
Shocker. Wish they did the same with political ads
More room for Russian misinformation.
Finally , facebook doing something proactive! I hope facebook continues with this new approach... being involved in doing things right for a change! Letsbsee for how long..
Misinformation on Facebook? I’m shocked!
To bad they won’t do that for the US Democracy. DeleteFacebook
How does FB know its disinformation? Are FB the ministry of truth now?
That’s the least they can do
Of course FB Twitter are left wing camps
I think we should just remove facebook, this is far worse of an epidemic.
So they care about this false information?
Will remove it's misinformation about coronavirus?
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