The company also said that it has removed 2.5 million pieces of organic content since March 1, which related to the sale of masks, hand sanitizers, surface disinfecting wipes and covid-19 test kits As part of its Community Standards Enforcement Report, Facebook, today said it has applied warning labels on 50 million pieces of content, globally, related to covid-19 in the month of April alone.
These were based on 7500 articles by independent fact checkers Facebook partners with. According to the company, people don’t click on content that has been marked with warning labels 95% of times.
In March, the company had said it took down 40 million pieces of content related to the disease. The company also said that it has removed 2.5 million