Facebook has updated its policy to prevent misleading details about Covid 19 and has begun removing fake claims about vaccines.
The announcement by Facebook comes as the use of the Pfizer corona vaccine has been approved in the UK, and is expected to be rolled out soon in the United States and other parts of the world.
Earlier, the policy stated that YC posts would be removed from social networks with fake details about the virus that could cause harm.
Facebook has now expanded the policy and will now take action against posts that make claims about vaccines that contradict the findings.
Facebook will also take action against conspiratorial ideas about vaccines, such as the presence of microchips in vaccines, while the company will also take action against users for making false claims about the safety, efficacy, ingredients or side effects of vaccines. Have to face
Facebook said the policy would not apply overnight and that the list of claims would be constantly updated with the evolution of Covid 19 vaccines.
However, it is not clear how the delay in adopting this policy will offset the damage caused by misleading reports about the vaccine.
Last month, Facebook, Twitter, and Google decided to work together to spread misleading details about online coronavirus vaccines.
To this end, the three social media platforms have forged a new partnership that will work with researchers and government agencies to develop a response framework for disseminating anti-vaccine details.
Phil Fact, the UK's fact-finding agency, said in a statement: "At a time when the corona vaccine is likely to be introduced in a few months, there is a wave of misleading reports and details about the vaccine's public confidence. "This project is designed with lessons learned from such campaigns in the past, so that we can prevent the next crisis before it occurs."
Facebook, Google and Twitter will all be part of the project, which will include fact-finding agencies from the United States, the United Kingdom, India, Spain, Argentina and Africa, as well as the UK Government's Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and Canada. Private council offices will also be part of it.
According to Phil Fact, the group will formulate rules to prevent misleading details and develop a joint framework to deal with.
