Speaking to Axios the Facebook CEO dismissed suggestions that the social media platform was a right-wing echo chamber.
Facebook will not act against anti-vaxxer posts from its platform the way did against Covid-19 related misinformation, Mark Zuckerbergin an interview in which he defended the social media platforms against allegations of right-wing bias.... [+]Zuckerberg said,"If someone is pointing out a case where a vaccine caused harm or that they're worried about it — you know, that's a difficult thing to say from my perspective that you shouldn't be allowed to express at all.
Zuckerberg, however, said that Facebook will work with health authorities to try to provide reputable information about the Covid-19 vaccine, although it is unclear how this will impact anti-vaxxer content shared on the platform.by global activist group Avaaz found that websites spreading health-related misinformation generated over 3.8 billion views on Facebook over the last year, with numbers peaking at 460 million views in April.
The report also found that pages from the top 10 sites spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories about health received almost four times as many views on Facebook as the top 10 reputable sites for health information.7 million posts pushing misinformation regarding Covid-19 from its flagship platform and Instagram between April and June.Axios
,"It's true that partisan content often has kind of a higher percent of people ... engaging with it, commenting on it, liking it. But I think it's important to differentiate that from, broadly, what people are seeing and reading and learning about on our service."800 million.
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