Facebook will try to reduce both Facebook and Instagram pages with anti-vaccine content.
According today's Facebook announcement, the company will run a new action plan to combat vaccination misinformation. The beginning will be by downgrading the rankings of groups and pages that spread false information about vaccines, so that they appear less on Facebook. News Feed. And on Instagram respectively, the company will prevent anti-vaccination content from appearing on Instagram Explore and hashtag pages.
Facebook's intended crackdown is to make these pages harder to find. Vaccines will be excluded from recommendations and will not appear as recommended when typing in the line searchς στο Facebοοk. Οι διαφημίσεις που περιλαμβάνουν παραπληροφόρηση σχετικά με τους εμβολιασμούς θα απορριφθούν.
According to Facebok, this campaign will build on the experience of the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help identify which pages spread the truth and which disseminate fantasies about vaccines. These organizations have identified pages of jokes and common misconceptions about vaccines.
Facebook is the latest social network to take no action on vaccinations. Last month, Pinterest took steps to prevent related content from appearing in search results, and the YouTube began to block the promotion of anti-vaccine advertising channels.
