Facebook to target vaccine misinformation with focus on pages, groups, ads

Facebook, the world's largest social media site, will soon take aim against anti-vaxers. The company will start by lowering the ranking of groups and pages that spread misinformation about vaccinations in its News Feed and Search options, a representative said Wednesday.

Teen who defied mom to get vaccinated calls for anti-vaccine misinformation to stop"These Groups and Pages will not be included in recommendations or in predictions when you type into Search," Monika Bickert, Facebook's vice president of global policy management, said in a statement. She added that when ads that include misinformation about vaccinations are found,"we will reject them." Ad accounts that continue to violate company policies may even be disabled.

Art Caplan, head of the Division of Medical Ethics at the New York University School of Medicine, has said he would welcome changes but said it may be necessary for Facebook to pull"scurrilous and erroneous sites down completely." Others believe Facebook is striking the right balance.

Are the vaccines the same stuff that we had 40 years ago ? Or are they doctored to save money .....

Good

Facebook the global curator of news?

As this isn't already happening. I am surprised! says 'Facebook will soon take aim against anti...'

I've been vaccinated when I was a baby and throughout my life I'm 52 and still here and every year have a flu jab 😱 so I guess not everything you hear about vaccination is wrong.

There lots of ppl who’ve never been vaccinated and are absolutely healthy

Vaccines are killing ppl....there literally TEST!!! Think about it if ya kid has his/her vaccination shots my child shouldn’t need /be required to have it bc your child is vaccinated an shouldn’t be able to get it .... but it’s all bs an y’all don’t wanna do ya own research on it

If you stop using facebook the problem fixes itself.

cnn this is bullshit ! This is telling all parents who witnessed the damage done to their child by MMR they don’t have a voice. nazi BigPharma vaccineinjury 😡😡

Facebook needs to be vaccinated

glad to know big brother facebook will be prescreening and censoring what grown people are exposed to🙄

I hate the anti-vaxx movement, but we need freedom of speach. Freedom of speach protects stupid people aswell.

Better yet, get as far away from Facebook as you can!

Yes because people are too stupid to think for themselves. Brought to you by Carl's Jr.

i am all for vaccines, but so much for the freedom of speech, even if the speech is misleading, things are moving into the thought control world, those in power, they assume they KNOW what is BEST for the rest of us.

About time 👍 When will facebook start to care about racism, fake news and hate groups?

Hahaha

persidaacosta gud luck!

Anti-vaxxers are fucking idiots but im afraid that this will be just a test on how people will react just as they did with alex jones. If the backlash is small enough they will move to other groups which they dont like

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I just want to know how to stop the stupid ads there are so many I can't even get to my family stuff and I didn't sign up for them. I have taken many away but I think when I use my phone because it doesn't have and ad blocker that's how they get in

This is how the left controls information. Imagine if they had absolute power. Scary.

Information is power - it up to people to make an informed choice, this is a slippery slope, taking away people's right to make their own decision.

About time.

Better off leaving Facebook. I left years ago best thing I ever did.

Can we just have a conversation about vaccines and not be told about their efficacy. What is so wrong about the discussion ?

IF WE DO NOT KNOW HOW CAN WE FIND OUT.

will facebook remove cnn too 🤔

WE NEED TO KNOW WHERE THESE VACCINES ARE COMING FROM!

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