After the heavy misinformation info on anti-vaccination, Facebook is getting ready to combat the false news on its news feed. In recent times, Facebook there is a lot of information shared against the vaccinations from discouraging people to avoid.
There are several posts are spread by some people who are against the vaccination based on conspiracy theories. The U.S is currently facing an outbreak of measles, which is an easy to cure disease with the help of a vaccine. According to the sources and pieces of evidence, vaccines are useful to prevent deadly disease and do not cause any effects.
It is mainly spread across Facebook groups, pages, and personal updates. The crises have got attention on Thursday from representative Adam Schiff, who sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sunder Pichai to address the problem.
Facebook immediately responded to the problem and said “exploring additional measures to best combat the problem,” according to a statement from the company. Google also taking steps to stop spreading fake information about the anti-vaccine problem by taking similar measures. YouTube said they will stop videos with sensitive content related to anti-vaccination that misleading people to take vaccinations.
Schiff also said. The three major social platforms powered by the powerful algorithms which can detect, distinguish the quality information from misleading information. The false news propaganda is troubling the public health issues severely.
There are several types of vaccines available to prevent the infections and virus. It is important for people to live a happy life by fighting against influenza complications and virus attacks. Most vaccines in use for children under 6-59 months age to combat the several deadly infections.
When you search vaccines keyword in YouTube a video showing anti-vaccine supported debate in middle. Another documentary shows “The Truth About the Vaccines” has almost 1.2 million views.
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