The social media giant, FACEBOOK adds Individual User Penalties and new alerts to help stop the spread of misinformation.

Not only Facebook, but all social media platforms have been taking measures to curb the spread of misinformation, especially when the world is going through a severe pandemic. Facebook has taken another step to stop this, this time through the addition of alerts, and increased individual user penalties, based on the distribution of content that has been flagged as false by fact-checking teams.

This is how FACEBOOK adds Individual User Penalties –

First off, Facebook is launching a new pop-up to alert visitors to Facebook Pages that have been repeatedly found to be sharing false information, as rated by Facebook fact-checkers.

As quoted by Facebook –

“We want to give people more information before they like a Page that has repeatedly shared content that fact-checkers have rated, so you’ll see a pop up if you go to like one of these Pages. You can also click to learn more, including that fact-checkers said some posts shared by this Page include false information and a link to more information about our fact-checking program. This will help people make an informed decision about whether they want to follow the Page.”

In addition to this, Facebook is also upping the penalties for people found to be distributing misinformation.

“Starting today, we will reduce the distribution of all posts in News Feed from an individual’s Facebook account if they repeatedly share content that has been rated by one of our fact-checking partners. We already reduce a single post’s reach in News Feed if it has been debunked.”

This move by the social media giant – ‘FACEBOOK adds Individual User Penalties’ is indeed a good one.

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