Facebook will be removing these posts and ads from your feed and search results

Facebook took several steps last year to combat the issue of ‘fake news’ in India and other countries. Now, the social media giant is taking a step further as it will soon start downranking pages and posts that will give misinformation on vaccines. “We are working to tackle vaccine misinformation on Facebook by reducing its distribution and providing people with authoritative information on the topic,” says Monika Bickert, VP, global policy management, Facebook in a blog post.
The firm is supposed to start by taking four major steps:
-Reducing the ranking of groups and Facebook pages that that spread misinformation about vaccinations in News Feed and Search. This means that these groups and pages won’t show up in recommendations or in search predictions.

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