Researchers claim Facebook isn't enforcing policies on COVID-19 misinformation.
Cahill did not respond to ABC News when asked for comment on the ISD Global study and the fine.
According to Decker, a relatively small number of independent fact-checkers can never hope to police the billions of Facebook posts on the platform."Fact-checking has always been a Band-Aid on a broken leg to this problem because fact-checking can't address scale," he said.Table from the ISD Global study showing analysis of the fact-checked posts that were among the 50 most popular posts mentioning the WDA or its members on Facebook that were analyzed during the study.
"It's not about new rules, it's about enforcing the ones they already have," said Gallagher."Facebook's policies on COVID-19 and vaccine misinformation go into a lot of detail on what content is prohibited and removed, but this report shows they are failing to implement these at a very basic level," she added.
Facebook responded to ABC News saying that the study only looked at a narrow sample of 14 accounts."This small sample is in no way representative of the hundreds of millions of posts that people have shared about COVID-19 vaccines in the past months on Facebook," according to a Facebook spokesperson. However, when asked, Facebook did not provide ABC News with data to support a claim that this sample was not representative of a wider trend.
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