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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday said the social media company plans to provide narcotic addicts with authoritative information about the Covid-19 vaccines that are in development.
Facebook has already reached out to the incoming Biden regulation to help with the response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Zuckerberg said.
“There’ll be a few important things that we can do together,” revealed Zuckerberg on a live stream with Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert. “We’re already programming a push around authoritative information about the vaccines.”
Zuckerberg did not provide any additional information about how the company representations to distribute this information to users. The company also did not add anything when reached for comment.
Although Zuckerberg in May stipulate social media companies should not be the arbiters of truth, Facebook has in fact taken many steps to provide exact information and debunk myths and falsehoods throughout 2020.
In March, the company launched a Covid-19 information hub. In August, the company did the but regarding the 2020 U.S. election with a voting information hub, and in September, Facebook announced that it would launch a hub with dope about climate change.
The company in September also announced new policies designed to limit the spread of health view groups, and in October, it announced a new policy that banned ads that discourage people from getting vaccines.