NY AG Chides Facebook on COVID-19 Misinformation
Facebook needs to dispel disinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, which is causing vaccine hesitancy, New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) wrote Thursday with a coalition of groups. “The constant barrage of inaccurate information being shared on Facebook has led to…
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vaccination rates in the Latino community barely surpassing 15 percent,” they wrote. They urged Facebook and other platforms take “real action” in removing misinformation. Facebook deployed a comprehensive strategy against Spanish disinformation that includes the "largest online vaccine information campaign" and "removing false claims about COVID-19 and vaccines in accordance with our policies," said Vice President-State and Local Public Policy Will Castleberry in a statement. "We also use the same machine learning model approaches in Spanish as we do in English to remove misinformation that violates our policies and we have more than a dozen global fact-checking partners who review and rate content in Spanish."