identified by global health organizations like the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The new policy is not a total ban on opposition to vaccines. The company will still accept ads that advocate against government vaccination policies. But those ads cannot explicitly discourage vaccination or make false claims, Facebook spokesperson Devon Kearns told NPR.The ban also only applies to paid ads, not to the much larger volume of regular posts, including by users with large followings and posts in private groups where vaccine misinformation has flourished.
The ad ban is the latest in a series of steps Facebook has taken to limit harmful content, in some cases after years of pressure from critics. In recent weeks it has banned posts that promote
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
People sure have a lot of time not working. Too lazy to work or just really don't care?
Finally!!!
You mean they weren’t before?
Ban NPR! Time to quit wasting taxpayers money on this useless radio network.
They will probably go after people like me who believe in vaccines and are current on most adult vaccines, but no way in heck am I getting a coronavirus vaccine rammed through the approval process by the Trump Administration.
Somebody needs to ban Facebook's ass! What happen to free speech🤷🏾♂️ Truth is now hate speech all yall goin to Hades it awaits u🤦🏿♂️
Good!
Wow. Facebook is finally getting their shit together. The Land of Karen will probably shit a brick that they can’t lie about Q-Anon crap and anti-vax nonsense.
About time
Sounds like a bunch of campaign promises
More news about Communist-style tactics used by the left to silence free speech. And news coming from a leftist news organization NPR ... funded by ALL American taxpayers! DEFUND LIBERAL N P R !
'Ads' sell a thing. What exactly is a cautionary quip about a product that has built in immunity from potential damages 'selling?'--What they are really saying is you don't get to question Big Pharma on products that don't have anywhere near the trial lengths that drugs do
'progressives' and the privatized public space, walking hand in hand...
Outstanding!!! SCIENCE FIRST!
Vaccines are safe. Never question them.
I'm not anti-vax but I'm still not going to be the first in line to take Trump's miracle vaccine.
Jail all anti-vaccination protesters.
Next will be mark of the beast 666 as government requires and tracing chips to track u & ur money every step and transaction. Total government control
A decade late and a half million lives short
Do the white supremacists next
Why does Facebook want to control what Americans can and cant say so much? This is unconstitutional
News flash: Arsonist volunteers to put out fire
.Facebook only reforms itself when the bottom line is in jeopardy 🙄
Looks like Facebook is sensing a Biden landslide and wants to pretend they’re on the right side of history
100% at least one of the women in that picture refers to herself as a 'mama bear' and sells Doterra.
Everyone please keep in mind - ZuckBot isn't doing this because he suddenly grew a brain Advertisers well pulling ad revenue out of FB because it's a cesspool of mis-information.
How about that. Facebook FINALLY owns up a little bit to the blatant misinformation being spread on their platforms.
That's against free speech. Shame on them. There is going to be some lawsuits coming.
FB says a lot of things. It doesn't always happen. BoycottFB
Finally.
I have long disabled facebook on all my devices
I have long disabled facebook on all my devices.
... about time ...
Again, must too late.
What about all the rabid anti Vaxxers?
Let me know when Facebook bans FB for deceptive practices.
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