Facebook Only Catches 16 Percent of Medical Misinformation Posts

— 19 août 2020

According to damning new research, only about 16 percent of the medical misinformation posted on Facebook gets caught by the social media giant’s filters.

The remaining 84 percent is never labeled as inaccurate, Business Insider reports. That means countless Facebook users are seeing potentially dangerous, misleading medical information without any sort of warning that it isn’t accurate.