The deceptive fitness content has amassed about 3.8 billion perspectives on Facebook Inc over the following year, peaking at the COVID-19 pandemic, defense organization Avaaz said Wednesday in a new report.
The report found that the content of 10 “super-fader” sites that shared incorrect fitness information had nearly 4 times more perspectives on Facebook in April 2020 than the content of sites of 10 leading fitness institutions, such as the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The social media giant, which has been under pressure to curb erroneous data on its platform, has made amplification of credible fitness data a key component of its response. It has also begun suppressing erroneous data on the new outbreak. of coronavirus that you think may cause imminent. to damage.
“Facebook’s rule set is a major risk to public fitness.Mark Zuckerberg has promised to provide reliable data on the pandemic, but his rule set sabotages those efforts by bringing many of Facebook’s 2.7 billion users to fitness disdata broadcast networks,” Fadi Quran said..director at Avaaz.
“We share Avaaz’s purpose of restricting misinformation, but its findings do not reflect the steps we have taken to prevent it from spreading to our services,” said a Facebook spokeswoman.
“Through our global network of fact-checkers, from April to June, we implemented precautionary tags on 98 million erroneous data about COVID-19 and removed 7 million content that could cause imminent damage.We have directed more than 2 billion other friends, others to government fitness resources and when they try to percentage of a bond in COVID-19, we show them a pop-up window to attach them with credible fitness data,” he said.
Avaaz’s report also indicated that the precautionary labels of fact-checkers were unevenly implemented even when incorrect information was found to be false.
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The report tracked how the content of a pattern of fake internet sites for sharing information was shared on Facebook through the interpretation of Facebook’s knowledge between May 2019 and May 2020.
(With the exception of the title, this story has not been edited through NDTV and is published from a syndicated broadcast).
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