{"id":33336,"date":"2021-03-26T16:45:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T23:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33336"},"modified":"2021-03-26T16:45:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T23:45:16","slug":"misinformation-concerns-abound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33336","title":{"rendered":"MISINFORMATION CONCERNS ABOUND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Intelligence Committee Chair <a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/xggsknglcddtynydtprcctsscgtqdgdmmbclnjqddpghpg_omqtwwjzjdtltlrqrqwl.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/xggsknglcddtynydtprcctsscgtqdgdmmbclnjqddpghpg_omqtwwjzjdtltlrqrqwl.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1616884400515000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE3YCipkeG-5M-scs0AgRQIrdlLJQ\">Mark Warner<\/a>\u00a0(D-Va.) on Friday pressed Facebook to do more to combat the spread of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on both its platform and Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/zffdvgzjfrrkcgcrkbsffkddfzkqrzrttlfjgwqrrbzpbr_omqtwwjzjdtltlrqrqwl.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/zffdvgzjfrrkcgcrkbsffkddfzkqrzrttlfjgwqrrbzpbr_omqtwwjzjdtltlrqrqwl.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1616884400515000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE7XDjhbDcmSB3IBQ8TWrl5UR5mkQ\">letter<\/a>\u00a0to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg,\u00a0Warner detailed his concerns that the social media giant is not doing enough to get a handle on the increasing tide of misleading information around the safety of the vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnti-vaccination groups and other health conspiracy groups have long utilized \u2013 and been enabled by \u2013 Facebook\u2019s platforms to disseminate misinformation,\u201d Warner wrote. \u201cStudies show a rapid increase in the spread of health misinformation online since the start of the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter was sent the day after Zuckerberg\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/djsszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwttrghrp_omqtwwjzjdtltlrqrqwl.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/djsszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwttrghrp_omqtwwjzjdtltlrqrqwl.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1616884400516000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEgwZ9ir0g3umvQ0kpQXeFE9kGybQ\">testified<\/a>\u00a0before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on the topic of misinformation on Facebook, particularly around COVID-19 and the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg detailed Facebook\u2019s efforts to combat coronavirus vaccine misinformation on both Facebook and Instagram in his prepared testimony, noting that \u201cwe have made fighting misinformation and providing people with authoritative information a priority for the company.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Mark Warner\u00a0(D-Va.)&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33337,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33336\/revisions\/33337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}