Facebook stated on Friday that it’s changing part of its Menlo Park headquarters right into a vaccination web site, becoming a member of the federal government effort to pace up the vaccination drive within the US.
For this initiative, the corporate is teaming up with Ravenswood Family Health Centre, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg wrote in a put up.
“We’re also teaming up with the State of California and local nonprofits to support mobile vaccination clinics in four of the state’s hardest hit regions,” wrote Sandberg.
Earlier this 12 months, the social media firm determined to launch a device to give folks within the US details about the place to get COVID-19 vaccines and added a COVID-19 info space to its photo-sharing web site, Instagram.
Facebook’s Chief Product Officer Chris Cox stated in an interview that the corporate had taken viral false claims “very seriously” however stated there was “a huge grey area of people who have concerns… some of which some people would call misinformation and some of which other people would call doubt”. “The best thing to do in that huge grey area is just to show up with authoritative information in a helpful way, be a part of the conversation and do it with health experts,” he added.
The firm stated it was labelling Facebook and Instagram posts that debate the security of COVID-19 vaccines with textual content saying the vaccines undergo security and effectiveness checks earlier than approval. In the weblog put up, it additionally stated that since increasing its checklist of banned false claims in regards to the coronavirus and vaccines in February, it has eliminated a further two million items of content material from Facebook and Instagram.
© Thomson Reuters 2021
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