Facebook and Instagram will act against anti-vaccine groups – 03/10/2019

Facebook announced that it would delete ads including bad information about the vaccinations and not include in recommendations or research predictions groups and pages that they share anti-vacuum texts. On Instagram, no content of this type will be recommended or posted misinformation in the explorer bar or in the hashtags.

Through a press release signed by Facebook's Vice President of Global Policy, Monika Bickert, the company has anticipated measures for "fight misinformation about vaccines that exists on Facebook by reducing its distribution ", as well as with the aim of" providing people authorized information On the subject".

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The company founded by Mark Zuckerberg states that the world's leading health organizations, such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States (CDC), have identified public announcements that, after verification, have been shown to be "false and misleading". "If these vaccine announcements appear on Facebook, we will take measures against them, "they say.

For example, if a group or the administrator of a page publishes bad information on vaccines, we will exclude this whole group or the recommendations page, we will reduce the distribution of these groups and pages in the news feed and search results, and we will reject ads who seek to misinform, "summarizes.

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With the fight against these contents, they will "announce soon" measures for encourage vaccine experts to be at the forefront of research. "We are exploring different ways to offer people more precise information Vaccine Specialist Organizations in addition to the results of related research, pages dealing with the subject and invitations to join them interest groups related to vaccines ", they detail.

For the WHO, anti-vaccines are a threat

WHO included anti-vacuum movements in its health challenges in 2019. "Threat with reverse progress in the fight against vaccine-preventable diseases. Vaccination is one of the most economical ways to avoid the diseaseCurrently, this avoids 2 to 3 million deaths a year and an additional 1.5 million could be avoided if the global coverage was improved, "they say.

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Measles, for example, has experienced 30% increase in the world. "The reasons for this increase are complex and all these cases are not due to the refusal to be vaccinated, but some countries that were close to eliminate the disease saw a resurgence", they lament.

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