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Facebook is finally banning vaccine misinformation

Vox

These moves, part of a broader push by the company, are significant because with nearly 3 billion users, Facebook is one of the most influential social media networks in the world. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. All Open Sourced content is editorially independent and produced by our journalists.

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Your most important vaccine passport questions, answered

Vox

The CommonPass was launched by the Commons Project, a nonprofit initiative that focuses on digital health. For example, one privacy advocate told the Washington Post it took him just 11 minutes to create a fake Excelsior Pass by looking up someone else’s details on social media. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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How influencers are being recruited to promote the Covid-19 vaccine

Vox

But over the coming weeks and months, she’ll be far from the only person showing up in social media feeds getting inoculated. At the dawn of the pandemic, celebrities and influencers flooded our feeds with content urging us to take preventive measures, like hand-washing, social distancing, and mask-wearing.

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Three takeaways from a visit to TikTok’s new transparency center

The Verge

We also got an overview of the app’s community guidelines, its approach to child safety, and how it keeps data secure. All of it is basically in keeping with how American social platforms manage these concerns, though it’s worth noting that 2-year-old TikTok built this infrastructure much faster than its predecessors did. Governing. ?

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