Nuked Facebook will send notifications directly to users who like, share, or comment on covid-19 posts that violate the company’s terms of service.
If a user interacts with a post that’s later removed, Facebook sends a notification to the user telling them that the post was taken down. The landing page will also feature links to covid-19 educational resources and actions, like unfollowing the group that posted it.
Before this, the company displayed a banner on the news feed urging users to’help friends and family avoid false information about covid-19′. The hope is that new approach is more direct than the banner, while still avoiding scolding users or re-exposing them to misinformation.
Facebook’s modified approach is arriving almost a year into the pandemic. The notifications do n’t debunk claims in removed posts. They also do n’t apply to posts that later have fact-checking labels put on them.
