Facebook now shows you more information before you share a Covid post
Facebook has added a new global feature to its existing Covid-19 information alerts that will display the recency of an article before you share it and offer links to trusted resources.
The feature is an extension tothe alert it implemented in Junethat warns you if you are going to share an article over 90 days old.
In anupdated blog postFacebook said the addition was to “help people understand the recency and source of the content before they share it,” although the post doesn’t warn users that they might not want to share it. Twitter istesting a feature that basically tells you offit if can tell you haven’t read an article when you go to retweet it.
It’s an example of a social media company trying to be seen to stop the spread of misinformation, as the sharing of unsubstantiated articles fly around their networks unchallenged.
Facebook has acoronavirus misinformation centreon its News Feed but it is not available globally. Despite the platform’s insistence with such features that it is trying to stop the spread of misinformation, it is facing a monumental uphill battle such is the way it is set up to work.
Author: Henry Burrell, Contributor
Previously Tech Advisor’s Phones Editor, Henry covers and reviews every smartphone worth knowing about. He spends a lot of time moving between different handsets and shouting at WhatsApp to support multiple devices at once.
