Facebook removes seven million posts for sharing false information on coronavirus

FILE PHOTO: A 3D-printed Facebook logo is seen placed on a keyboard in this illustration taken March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

Facebook released the data as part of its sixth Community Standards Enforcement Report, which it introduced in 2018 along with more stringent decorum rules in response to a backlash over its lax approach to policing content on its platforms. The world’s biggest social media company removed about 22.5 million posts containing hate speech on its flagship app in the second quarter, up from 9.6 million in the first quarter. It also deleted 8.7 million posts connected to extremist organizations, compared with 6.3 million in the prior period.

That resulted in company taking action on fewer pieces of content related to suicide and self-injury, child nudity and sexual exploitation on its platforms, Facebook said in a blog post.

Facebook surely knows everything the best.

Thankfully I do not use fb anymore

Really? Because they removed the methods that allowed people to report posts because of fake news and false COVID info.

The Influencers behind the scene covid 19 have gotten to fb 🙆

Yeah, probably. Facebook are f*kg doctors now.

Faulty Fauci and Facebook are feverishly finding falsehoods?

Kill it with fire

genuinely curious .. does FB have actual epidemiologists and virologists on staff to vet these? I got my link to an actual double blinded study removed.. who is determining what is false information? What is their criteria? Who is determining what is true and what is false?

Good job Facebook

Meanwhile it not promotes but allows sex traffickers to boost themselves. WTF made FB the health king? No one said ever.

📌

Facebook is still around👴🏻

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

So we can trust the uncensored Facebook posts about homeopathy as a cancer cure? All or nothing.

Thank you mark for being internet police. Gafam are the best, more powerfull than States. V for Vendetta must be watched by everybldy

That’s probably about 0.01% of the total misinforming posts on Facebook.

The BURNING of books always pleases the cults that made politics their religion like the left.

1984 tyranny

Facebook is a cesspool. Now try removing the accounts of bots and grandmas sharing hate filled Jesus memes and fake news.

Well...It was necessary to take such step coz rumors spread faster than the truth. Great 🙏🏼

How does fb know it's fake or not?

Facebook is into medical advice now?

United States Latest News, United States Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Global coronavirus cases top 20 million, doubling in 45 daysThe confirmed number of coronavirus cases in the world has reached 20 million. imagine if Trump hadn't scuttled China air travel on Jan 30, 2020... and the left called him a racist. Heard immunity is gaining momentum 😹😹😹
Source: latimes - 🏆 11. / 82 Read more »

British fashion retailer Superdry shores up finances with 70 million pound facilityBritish fashion retailer Superdry has agreed with its lenders a new 70 million pound ($91.5 million) lending facility to get it through the coronavirus crisis, it said on Monday.
Source: Reuters - 🏆 2. / 97 Read more »

Coronavirus is changing everyday life across the USThe 2019 coronavirus has drawn similarities with severe acute respiratory syndrome, a coronavirus that killed more than 700 people in 2002-03. Trump is killing Americans! I will Create Verified Facebook Business Manager Or Ads Account Express 24 Hour. 👇👇👇Order Now👇👇👇
Source: USATODAY - 🏆 100. / 63 Read more »

Doctors, Community Groups Struggle to Tackle Covid-19 Racial DisparitiesLanguage barriers, distrust and other obstacles are complicating efforts to get Covid-19 testing and treatment to Black people, Latinos and Native Americans in hard-hit communities Testing positive is meaningless. Mumbai India, home of 1 million people living 32 800 per square mile - 50% test positive for CV and the death rate is lower than the common flu. Language barriers? C’mon, man! Don't sugarcoat racism!!!
Source: WSJ - 🏆 98. / 63 Read more »

Global shares climb as China industrial data offers hope for coronavirus recoveryEuropean shares rose on Monday as industrial activity in China gained strength, another sign of recovery from the coronavirus pandemic that added to hopes the global economy would also return to health. What about the floods? Well, the westerners are so easy to fool 😹 Yikes. I thought I blocked yet, you persist.
Source: Reuters - 🏆 2. / 97 Read more »

Covid-19 slowed Facebook's moderation for suicide, self-injury and child exploitation contentFacebook on Tuesday disclosed that its ability to moderate content involving suicide, self-injury and child exploitation was impacted by the coronavirus between the months of April and June. Pretty much the only thing that matters now is the coronavirus. Any other injustice in the world has been put on the back burner. Russian malware. But.. but.. but it is all automated.
Source: CNBC - 🏆 12. / 72 Read more »