Facebook users who have read and interacted with fake news about COVID-19 will soon receive notifications on platform, as announced by the company today Thursday.
Τις επόμενες εβδομάδες, οι χρήστες που πάτησαν like, κοινοποίησαν ή σχολίασαν ψευδές περιεχόμενο θα λάβουν μια αναδυόμενη προειδοποίηση στη ροή ειδήσεών τους (news feed). Το μήνυμα θα τους κατευθύνει σε μια ιστοσελίδα του Παγκόσμιου Οργανισμού Υγείας (WHERE), which mentions the myths about the coronavirus.
“We want to connect people who may have interacted with harmful scams information about the virus with the truth from authoritative sources”, Reported Guy Rosen, Facebook's vice president for platform integrity.
The system was announced the day after the release of a campaign through Avaaz about their problem fake news of Facebook.
Avaaz researched 104 Facebook posts and videos about the virus and found that the content was shared nearly 1,7 million times and garnered 117 million views. They also found that Facebook may need up to 22 days to issue misinformation warnings.
