Facebook Inc stated on Monday it took down 1.3 billion fake accounts amongst October and December and that it had more than 35,000 folks working on tackling misinformation on its platform.
The enterprise also removed more than 12 million pieces of content about COVID-19 and vaccines that international well being professionals flagged as misinformation, it stated in a weblog post.
False claims and conspiracies about the coronavirus vaccines have proliferated on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter in the course of the pandemic.
Facebook’s disclosure of information on misinformation comes ahead of an inspection by the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce into how technologies platforms like Facebook are tackling misinformation.
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