On March 7, Facebook said it would work to 'tackle' the problem of misinformation about vaccines on both its platform and on Instagram. Weeks later, such content continues to thrive on those platforms.
New York Misinformation about vaccines continues to thrive on Facebook and Instagram weeks after the companies vowed to reduce its distribution on their platforms.
On March 7, amid news reports about the pervasiveness of vaccine misinformation on social media platforms, Facebook published a blog post that said it would work to"tackle" the problem on its platform and Instagram, which it owns, by limiting the dissemination of such content.Facebook said at the time it would"reduce the ranking of groups and pages that spread misinformation about vaccines" by not including them in recommendations or in predictions when users type a search.
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