How Facebook Hobbled Mark Zuckerberg’s Bid to Get America Vaccinated
Source: Sam Schechner, Jeff Horwitz, and Emily Glazer
Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
In this article from the Wall Street Journal's Facebook Files, the authors describe how despite Facebook's best efforts to promote true information about the COVID-19 vaccine, these efforts were undermined by anti-vaccine conspiracists. Specifically, mass postings by "big whales" and an inability to reign in the antivaccine comments promoted anti-vaccine misinformation.
Keywords: Community , Memes , Misinformation/Disinformation , Tech Ethics , Tech Industry