Facebook is to begin showing messages to people who have interacted with misinformation about coronavirus, guiding them to official advice from the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The social network said it would start showing messages in the News Feed to anyone who had interacted with a post that had since been removed by the site.
Facebook said the messages will connect people with the WHO's Mythbusters page, which details how a number of claims about Covid-19 are not true.
It said the aim is to try to stop the spread of misinformation offline, as well as on its own platform. Facebook vice president of integrity Guy Rosen said: "We want to connect people who may have interacted with harmful misinformation about the virus with the