{"id":6467,"date":"2022-07-26T15:36:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T13:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/26\/facebook-considering-ending-restrictions-on-covid-misinformation\/"},"modified":"2022-07-26T15:36:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T13:36:52","slug":"facebook-considering-ending-restrictions-on-covid-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/26\/facebook-considering-ending-restrictions-on-covid-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook considering ending restrictions on Covid misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social network turning to its \u2018supreme court\u2019 about decision, says head of global affairs, Nick Clegg<\/p>\n<p>Facebook is turning to its \u201csupreme court\u201d to decide whether to end restrictions on Covid misinformation, more than two years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/04\/fake-coronavirus-tweets-spread-as-other-sites-take-harder-stance\">after the company first started to take special action<\/a> on posts promoting falsehoods about the disease.<\/p>\n<p>The social network is considering changing the way it deals with such misinformation by, for example, labelling it as false or demoting it in algorithmic ranking, rather than simply removing it from the site. It wants to make the change now, according to head of global affairs, Nick Clegg, \u201cas many, though not all, countries around the world seek to return to more normal life\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jul\/26\/facebook-considering-ending-restrictions-on-covid-misinformation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1f129e9f589719ecda936aef2fd3f982b2f2fed2\/0_36_3200_1920\/master\/3200.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5c3bde540395bd643d990f89d0b94342\" title=\"Facebook considering ending restrictions on Covid misinformation\" \/>Social network turning to its \u2018supreme court\u2019 about decision, says head of global affairs, Nick Clegg<br \/>\nFacebook is turning to its \u201csupreme court\u201d to decide whether to end restrictions on Covid misinformation, more than two years after the company first started to take special action on posts promoting falsehoods about the disease.<br \/>\nThe social network is considering changing the way it deals with such misinformation by, for example, labelling it as false or demoting it in algorithmic ranking, rather than simply removing it from the site. It wants to make the change now, according to head of global affairs, Nick Clegg, \u201cas many, though not all, countries around the world seek to return to more normal life\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social network turning to its \u2018supreme court\u2019 about decision, says head of global affairs, Nick Clegg Facebook is turning to its \u201csupreme court\u201d to decide whether to end restrictions on Covid misinformation, more than two years after the company first started to take special action on posts promoting falsehoods about the disease. The social network &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/26\/facebook-considering-ending-restrictions-on-covid-misinformation\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook considering ending restrictions on Covid misinformation<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}