Vaccine misinformation has been around since well before the pandemic, but ensuring that anti-scientific conspiracies don\u2019t get boosted online is more crucial than ever as the world races against the spread of a deadly, changing virus.<\/p>\n
Now, Facebook states it’s going to expand the standards it uses to eliminate false vaccine asserts . Under the new guidelines, which Facebook stated it created in consultation with groups such as the World Health Organization, the business will eliminate posts asserting that COVID-19 vaccines<\/a> are not successful, that it is”safer to find the illness” and the widely debunked longstanding anti-vaxxer assert that vaccines can lead to autism.<\/p>\n Facebook states it’s going to set a”special focus” on authorities against Pages, accounts and groups that violate the rules, noticing that they might be taken out of the platform.<\/p>\n Since the start of the pandemic, we've made continued investments to support and keep our community informed. We're announcing new features to connect people to vaccine resources, find vaccine sites near them, and launching the IG Covid Information Center https:\/\/t.co\/ToTzlwDX7o<\/a><\/p>\n — Adam Mosseri \ud83d\ude37 (@mosseri) February 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n