Facebook to send warning messeges to users engaging with Coronavirus misinformation

Facebook is trying to curb Coronavirus misinformation by sending warnings messages to misinformed users

Facebook is to start sending messages to users who have connected with misinformation about coronavirus, managing them to legitimate guidance from the World Health Organization (WHO). 

The social media site said it would begin showing messages in the News Feed to any usewho had cooperated with a post that had since been removed by the site.
Facebook said the messages will interface users with the WHO's Mythbusters page, which subtleties how various cases about Covid-19 are false. 

It said the point is to attempt to stop the spread of misinformation disconnected, just as on its own foundation. 

Facebook VP of uprightness Guy Rosen stated: 'We need to educate users who may have communicated with unsafe misinformation about the virus with reality from definitive sources in the event that they see or hear these cases again off of Facebook. 'users will begin seeing these messages in the coming weeks.' 

Facebook and other social media sites  have confronted examination over their endeavors to stop the spread of misinformation and bogus cases connected to Covid-19 in spite of endeavors to guide users to authentic direction on the virus. 
Facebook said it has now guided in excess of two billion users to assets from legitimate wellbeing specialists through its own information community, and showed warnings on around 40 million posts on the stage which had been evaluated at any rate incompletely bogus by reality checkers. 

Facebook and other social media sites have been critisized for users spreading misinformation on their plaforms during the pandemic

The informal community said this procedure is having an effect, recommending its figures demonstrated that when users saw these marks, 95% didn't proceed to see the first substance. Nonetheless, a week ago, investigate from industry controller Ofcom proposed that about portion of UK grown-ups online had been presented to bogus cases around the virus. 
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has likewise met web giants including Facebook to ask a further clampdown on misinformation seeming on the web. 'Until this point in time, we've additionally removed a huge number of bits of misinformation that could prompt impending physical violence,' Mr Rosen said. 

'Instances of misinformation we've expelled incorporate destructive cases like drinking dye fixes the virus and speculations like physical separating is insufficient in keeping the sickness from spreading.' 

Facebook said another area called Get The Facts is likewise being acquainted with its information community, which will convey articles composed by autonomous reality checkers, exposing misinformation around the episode. 

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says accurate information is one of his top priorities during the pandemic

Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated: 'Through this emergency, one of my top needs is ensuring that you see precise and legitimate information over the entirety of our applications. 'I trust every one of you are remaining protected, solid and educated.'