Photo by Nathalia Segato on Unsplash [Download]

Facebook deletes Brazil Presidents coronavirus misinfo post

Fb has diverted from its protection of not fact-checking politicians so that you could prevent the spread of most definitely destructive coronavirus flawed data from Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Fb made the decisive variety to remove a video shared by way of Bolsonaro on Sunday where he claimed that &#…
Facebook has diverted from its policy of not fact-checking politicians in order to prevent the spread of potentially harmful coronavirus misinformation from Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Facebook made the decisive choice to remove a video shared by Bolsonaro on Sunday where he claimed that &#…

Original article
Original article
Author: Josh Constine

TechCrunch is a leading technology media property, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news.

Josh Constine has recently written 11 articles on similar topics including :
  1. "If I watch a Story cross-posted from Instagram to Facebook on either of the apps, it should appear as watched at the back of the Stories row on the other app". (January 23, 2020)
  2. "Its an open secret that every company is on fire, says Kintaba co-founder John Egan. At any given moment something is going horribly wrong in a way that it has never gone wrong before. Code failure downtimes, server outages and hack attacks plague engineering teams". (February 10, 2020)
  3. "Facebook plans to challenge Europe’s top court, which today ruled that EU countries can order Facebook to globally remove content that violates local laws". (October 4, 2019)
  4. "There’s a strategic cost to the defection of Visa, Stripe, eBay, and more from the Facebook-led cryptocurrency Libra Association. They’re not just names dropping off a list. Each potentially made Libra more useful, ubiquitous, or reputable". (October 13, 2019)
  5. "After eBay, Visa, Stripe, and other high-profile partners ditched the Facebook -backed cryptocurrency collective, Libra scored a win today with the addition of Shopify". (February 21, 2020)
  6. "Shareholders have repeatedly tried to oust Facebooks chairman Mark Zuckerberg. The board has repeatedly rejected that demand. Outside investors are unlikely to get much help with that push from Facebooks newest board member: Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston". (February 3, 2020)
  7. "The Chinese government has been removing criticism of its coronavirus response from apps like Weibo, the local equivalent of Twitter. But before it can, that content is being saved, decentralized, and highlighted thanks to Arweaves Permaweb". (March 5, 2020)
  8. "Its suspiciously convenient that Facebook already fulfills most of the regulatory requirements its asking governments to lay on the rest of the tech industry". (February 17, 2020)
  9. "Despite ongoing public relations crises, Facebook kept growing in Q3 2019, demonstrating that media backlash does not necessarily equate to poor business performance". (October 30, 2019)
  10. "Facebook is suffering from a massive bug in its News Feed spam filter, causing URLs to legitimate websites including Medium, Buzzfeed, and USA Today to be blocked from being shared as posts or comments". (March 18, 2020)
  11. "Who fact-checks the fact-checkers? Did Trump call coronavirus the Democrats new hoax? Those are the big questions emerging from a controversial false label applied to Politico and NBC News stories by right-wing publisher The Daily Caller". (March 3, 2020)
Posted on  , ,