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Facebook joins Google in deprioritizing medical misinformation: Are social media companies finally “getting it”?

Post author By Orac
Post date July 3, 2019
38 Comments on Facebook joins Google in deprioritizing medical misinformation: Are social media companies finally “getting it”?

Yesterday, social media giant Facebook announced that it was acting against medical misinformation by using keyphrases to deprioritize results promoting misinformation and scams? Is it enough, and is it too late?

Tags antivaccine, Facebook, Google, quackery, quckery, search engine, social media, Twitter, vaccine, YouTube

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