Facebook said it removed more than three dozen pages, groups and Facebook or Instagram accounts for spreading misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.
The social media giant said the accounts were linked to 12 people who were accused in a much cited report by Center for Countering Digital Hate of disseminating the vast majority of vaccine misinformation on the network.
But Facebook disputes that...
Facebook removed 65 of its own and 243 Instagram accounts for spreading misinformation about AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines, according to the social media giant’s July Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Report.
The report found the misinformation network was tied to Fazze, a subsidiary of a U.K.-registered marketing firm, but operations were conducted in Russia. It targeted users in India, Latin...
Before COVID-19, it would have been easy to imagine that producing and distributing an effective vaccine would have been the biggest challenge of fighting a global pandemic. But as it’s turned out, some of the biggest challenges of the COVID-19 virus have been public health challenges – getting people to behave in ways that reduce the spread of disease and getting them to take the vaccine in...
