Facebook will ban ads that include misinformation about vaccines and will tweak its algorithms so antivaccine content is no longer recommended
Facebook Inc. said Thursday it would make it tougher for vaccine skeptics to spread misinformation, amid criticism that the tech giant wasn’t doing enough to limit the proliferation of such content.
The company’s move follows similar efforts from other social-media firms, and rising interest from lawmakers about how best to tackle this issue. On Tuesday, an Ohio teenager testified before Congress that his mother believes the false claim that vaccines cause autism because of what she read on Facebook. Ethan Lindenberger, 18...
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