“If we have signals that a piece of content is false, we temporarily reduce its distribution pending review by a third-party fact-checker,”
Facebook said in a notice that first decreased the news pieces’ exposure. Facebook then lifted the ban, claiming it was due to worries over Russian misinformation.
However, Zuckerberg suffered significant political harm as a result of his choice to censor the news until it was fact-checked.
“It has since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story,” Mr. Zuckerberg further said.
The hypothesis of the Covid lab leak Facebook stifled rumours that the vaccination could have been a man-made product while.
The coronavirus spread throughout the globe. “False information” was the label applied to an editorial piece in the New York Post titled “Don’t buy China’s story:
