During the COVID-19 epidemic, social media platforms such as Facebook Twitter increased the spread of false claims and misleading information. However, Facebook claims that the company Kovid-19 Vaccination is working fast to stop climate change and election related false news.
Social media platform Facebook said on Wednesday that the strictest action will be taken against such people, who are repeatedly working to spread misleading information from the Facebook platform. Social media giant Facebook said in a blog post that if the wrong information has been shared more than once with the Facebook account and it has been caught by our Facebook Fact Check team, then the post of such Facebook account in the news feed Will be removed. Also the spread of such posts will be reduced.
According to Facebook, the company is working on a new tool, which will help in delivering the right content to the people. The role of the fact checking team is going to be very important in this.
Flood of fake news on Facebook
According to the news agency Reuters, during the COVID-19 epidemic, the spread of social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, false claims and misleading information has increased. However, Facebook claims, the company is increasingly working towards curbing fake news related to Kovid-19, vaccination, climate change and elections. According to Facebook, about 1.3 billion fake Facebook accounts have been blocked from October to December last year.
