Facebook To Issue "Warnings" To Users Who Have Liked Or Clicked On "Coronavirus Misinformation"

"Facebook has announced that it will begin issuing warnings to users who have clicked on or liked what it deems to be ‘misinformation’ about the coronavirus. The social network will also direct those users to a site where the World Health Organization 'lists and debunks virus myths and rumors', according to the AP.

the report states that 'The new notice will be sent to users who have clicked on, reacted to, or commented on posts featuring harmful or false claims about COVID-19 after they have been removed by moderators.'

Facebook is to promote a WHO backed site called 'Get The Facts,' where 'conspiracy theories' about coronavirus are debunked.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page Thursday, 'Through this crisis, one of my top priorities is making sure that you see accurate and authoritative information across all of our apps.'

The AP report notes that so called ‘fact checkers’ and moderators at Facebook are 'up against people’s mistrust of authoritative sources for information, such as the WHO.'

It is hardly surprising that people do not trust the WHO.

For weeks, the organisation parroted the patently false claims of the communist Chinese government regarding the spread of the virus.

Facebook now faces an even bigger problem with getting users to trust it given that one of its key ‘fact checkers’ was revealed to have worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), and has since been placed in charge of debunking articles suggesting that COVID-19 may have leaked from the bio-lab."