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Facebook's Algorithm: A Major Threat to Public Health
From the Executive Summary: "[1] Facebook is failing to keep people safe and informed during the pandemic. [2] Global health misinformation spreading networks spanning at least five countries generated an estimated 3.8 billion views on Facebook in the last year. [3] Health misinformation spreading websites at the heart of the networks peaked at an estimated 460 million views on Facebook in April 2020, just as the global pandemic was escalating around the world. [4] Content from the top 10 websites spreading health misinformation had almost four times as many estimated views on Facebook as equivalent content from the websites of 10 leading health institutions, such as the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)."
Avaaz
2020-08-19
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Left Behind: How Facebook is Neglecting Europe's Infodemic
From the Document: "As Europe enters a third COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] wave, our research finds that Facebook is failing to protect Europeans from dangerous misinformation. Facebook promised to do more to protect its users, but a year after the start of the pandemic, our findings suggest it has not improved its ability to detect dangerous misinformation, emphasising the need for urgent EU regulations."
Avaaz
2021-04-20
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Shot in the Dark: Researchers Peer Under the Lid of Facebook's 'Black Box,' Uncovering How Its Algorithm Accelerates Anti-Vaccine Content
"New Avaaz research finds that Facebook's 'related pages' algorithm continues to recommend pages that promote anti-vaccine content to users, despite the platform's pledge to tackle [hyperlink] COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] and vaccine misinformation, and its stated commitment [hyperlink] to avoid making page recommendations that could be ' low-quality, objectionable, or particularly sensitive. ' This troubling trend persists as more research shows a link between consumption of anti-vaccine misinformation and increased vaccine hesitation [hyperlink] and President Biden singled out [hyperlink] Facebook's handling of COVID-19 misinformation, remarking that '[t]hey're killing people.' While Avaaz has previously shed light [hyperlink] on the scale and spreaders of COVID-19 and vaccine misinformation on Facebook, our new research demonstrates that Facebook's algorithm can actually accelerate such content by recommending pages with low-quality and objectionable content to users. [...] 'Over the course of two days, we used two new Facebook accounts to follow vaccine-related pages that Facebook suggested for us. Facebook's algorithm directed us to 109 pages, with 1.4M followers, containing anti-vaccine content -- including pages from well-known anti-vaccine advocates and organizations['.]"
Avaaz
2021-07-21
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How Facebook Can Flatten the Curve of the Coronavirus Infodemic
From the Executive Summary: "In February, our team began detecting and monitoring widespread misinformation about COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] online. In March, our investigative team set out to analyse and assess the efficacy of Facebook's efforts to combat this 'infodemic' on its main platform. For this study, of the thousands of pieces of coronavirus-related misinformation content being shared on Facebook, we decided to examine over 100 pieces of misinformation content in six different languages about the virus that were rated false and misleading by reputable, independent fact-checkers and could cause public harm."
Avaaz
2020-04-15
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G20 Must Cancel Debt to Stop Coronavirus 'Third Wave' Devastating Developing Countries
From the Summary: "The G20 needs to heed the warnings - a 'third wave' of the coronavirus crisis could result in a catastrophic loss of life in poorer countries in the Global South and push half a billion more people into poverty. Countries like the Central African Republic have just 3 ventilators for almost 5 million people, and Malawi has only a quarter of the nurses needed to provide healthcare for all. Yet, right now, instead of investing every dollar they have into boosting their healthcare systems to defend against the onslaught of the virus, these countries are having to use their precious resources to pay off external debt. Sixty-four countries spend more on external debt payments than on public healthcare."
Jubilee Debt Campaign; Avaaz; Catholic Agency for Overseas Development . . .
2020-04-15
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