- Facebook’s anti-misinformation measures for coronavirus news already backfired, with a bug in the system blocking genuine information from getting through.
- Facebook acknowledged the issue, said the legitimate articles that were blocked before would be brought back, and fixed the issue.
- Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube will continue to fight COVID-19 fake news during the pandemic.
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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg told The New York Times that his company will “take a much harder line” on coronavirus misinformation. If there’s anyone out there that should have an idea of how bad the fake news problem is on social networks, that’s Facebook. The company faced huge criticism following the 2016 presidential elections when armies of trolls spread misinformation that went viral. It turns out Zuckerberg really meant it when he said Facebook will have measures in place to combat coronavirus pandemic news, but those measures backfired spectacularly. A bug in the algorithm had an unexpected side-effect, blocking genuine articles from appearing on Facebook right alongside fake news.
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Facebook fixed the bug that blocked genuine coronavirus pandemic articles originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 07:31:46 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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