Facebook's Misinfo Problems Continue; Vizio's Inscape Limits Data Use

by AdExchanger // Monday, December 7th, 2020 – 12:03 am Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Falling Short? Facebook updated its misinformation policy to include vaccine-related content, as the company continues fighting against claims that it isn’t doing enough to protect its billions of users. The Wall Street Journal reports that the social networking giant will over the coming weeks start removing false claims and conspiracy theories about vaccines that have been debunked by public health experts on Facebook and Instagram. The company said the policy update reflects anticipation of vaccines becoming available soon. But Facebook continues to have problems corralling misinformation in other topics. According to Business Insider, a new report found that ahead of two pivotal runoff elections in Georgia – which could decide whether Republicans or Democrats control the US Senate – Facebook is failing to add fact-check labels to the majority of the most viral posts containing fake news about elections in the state, and falling short of its promise to crack down on election-related misinformation. The report found that Facebook didn’t apply fact-check labels to 60% of the top-performing posts containing false election claims – or any label at all…
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