social media giant Facebookis again at the center of criticism. This time the reason anti-vaccine posts Allowing some shares despite his promise that he will not allow it. Recently, the social media platform has been criticized frequently. Because, according to reports released a few months ago, the company is accused of sharing users’ information. It was also claimed that he made various projects for children to use social media.
Facebook releases anti-vaccine ads
According to CNN’s report, the social media platform said it blocked anti-vaccine messages. However, recently multiple anti-vaccine ad It was reported that he also gave permission to publish it. Moreover, one of these advertisements was taking a rather harsh stance. Because the vaccination conditions Holocaust He compared it to (the genocide by the Nazis).
FacebookIn another advertisement published in , there were T-shirts promoted with the message “I am originally from America, but I am currently living in 1941 Germany”. since May’Ride the Red Wave‘ Facebook earned more than $280,000 from its ads. The page has less than 10,000 followers but can potentially reach millions by paying Facebook.
Also run by a company ‘Next Level Goods‘ has spent more than $500,000 on Facebook ads since 2019. The company regularly uses Facebook to advertise anti-vaccine t-shirts. By the way, according to Facebook data, ads are the most Texas, Florida and CaliforniaViewed by users in .
Facebook had to make a statement about how these ads were published. The company recently COVID-one9 vaccines He has promised to remove posts that are harmful. It also announced that it deleted more than 20 million pieces of content. owner of facebook MetaAds comparing COVID-19 policies with Nazi Germany and describing vaccines as poisons went against their ‘disclosure policy’.
However, the NYU researcher Laura EdelsonAccording to , this was an issue because Facebook didn’t manually review all ads. Another reason for this is that commercial pages face a more moderate policy compared to political campaigns. Most likely, Facebook’s detection systems overlooked these ads.