Facebook May Stop Labeling COVID Disinformation

The Hill reports:

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, asked the board tasked with overseeing policy debates on the platform to weigh in on whether it should ease its COVID misinformation policy.

The company asked the Oversight Board, a task force funded by Meta that operates independently, if the company’s policy, including to remove posts with false claims, is still appropriate as the pandemic “has evolved,” Meta’s president of Global Affairs Nick Clegg wrote Tuesday in a blog post.

As Meta looks to possibly ease back on COVID-19 misinformation policies, the company has faced criticism from advocacy groups and Democrats that it has not done enough to combat misinformation about the virus or vaccines.

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