By Reis Thebault Reis Thebault National and breaking news reporter Email Bio Follow March 7 at 9:09 PM In an effort to curb anti-vaccination conspiracy theories and misinformation, Facebook announced Thursday it will no longer recommend the offending pages and groups, and will block advertisements that include false content about vaccines. The company will also stop recommending anti-vaccination content on Instagram.
Facebook also said it would be “exploring” ways to counter false content, whenever users do come across it, with “educational information” about vaccines. The World Health Organization recently dubbed “vaccine hesitancy” one of the top global threats of 2019, a warning punctuated by one of the worst measles outbreaks in decades, which has sickened at least 75 people across the Pacific Northwest — most of whom are unvaccinated children under 10 years old.
In a statement to The Washington Post last month, Facebook said that most anti-vaccination content didn’t violate its policies around inciting “real-world harm.” Simply removing such material, the company said, wouldn’t effectively counter fictional information with the factual. The effort means these groups and pages will have a difficult time recruiting new members. However, the spokeswoman said, the users who already belong to the groups or pages will be able to log onto them as usual.
Disable their accounts and make them do a book report on the polio vaccine to unlock them.
ReisThebault Curious about your source New Knowledge and their falsifying election info in the past? Also, as a vaccine advocate I cannot easily find DiResta’s pro-vaccine FB page. I rely on Voices4Vaccines
Its not that vaccines dont work, the idea is sound science. Its that I dont trust the companies that make them. Too many episodes of giving people diseases on purpose.
Who is still using Facebook?
Is there a vaccine for censorship?
Good
Makes me wonder how much pharmaceutical companies paid him.
They should do this for flat-earthers too.
Does this mean Facebook will kick that charlatan JennyMcCarthy off the platform?
Do we really want this, to evolve into Mark the meddler's discretion... editing is like omitting, and omitting, ... is deception!
Don’t show me any pro vaccine sites either ! He much be buying stocks in the pharmaceuticals ! Follow the money! They don’t care if your kids dies!
Facebook is the disease! 👺🔥
too late. the dumb people is already sick
STOP taking away free speech. Censorship will never prevail
Orwellian.
I got vaccinated against Facebook....feel fine now.
Anyone who says anything that is untrue should be spanked.
They blocked you, your not the president anymore.
BTW: on you continued overpowering need of greed... to you and your Twitter presence ... Go0d Bye!
Zuck looks like a vaccine side-effect.
Fascistbook is owned by Big Pharma.
Im against vaccine. You going to block me? Was that hate speech?
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