This began to change in December, when the company strengthened its coronavirus policies and began to remove posts about Covid-19 that had been debunked by public health experts. It often made misinformation about vaccines less visible on its platform but stopped short of removing it. In April 2020, it began to add to posts about coronavirus a panel of facts from the CDC to combat misinformation. Under the new policy, groups where users repeatedly share banned content will be shut down.įacebook has repeatedly updated its policies on Covid-19 content as the pandemic has evolved. Groups on Facebook have been known to create echo chambers of misinformation and have fueled the rise of anti-vaccine communities and rhetoric. “We’ll continue to expand our enforcement over the coming weeks.” “We will begin enforcing this policy immediately, with a particular focus on Pages, groups and accounts that violate these rules,” said Guy Rosen, who oversees content decisions. Instagram users will face the same restrictions. These new community guidelines apply to user-generated posts as well as paid advertisements, which were already banned from including such misinformation. Facebook has banned misinformation about all vaccines following years of harmful, unfounded health claims proliferating on its platform.Īs part of its policy on Covid-19-related misinformation, Facebook will now remove posts with false claims about all vaccines, the company announced in a blogpost on Monday.
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