Facebook to limit message forwards due to mass spread of COVID-19 rumours
By MYBRANDBOOK
With the rapid speed of forwarding COVID-19 fake messages and rumours, Facebook Messenger may ban mass-forwarding of messages.
Facebook has done this before when its other messaging services have gone berserk with forwarding hysterical misinformation – misinformation that led to people getting lynched in the fake-news crisis that seized India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka in 2018.
India was torn apart as rumours spread virally on social media sparked dozens of mob lynching. Over the period of 18 months, 33 people were killed and at least 99 injured in 69 reported lynching. ,
“We’re working hard to limit the spread of misinfo on our platforms, especially with #COVID19, and we’re exploring more options like testing stricter limits for how many chats you can fwd a message to at one time. This feature is still in development and not testing externally yet,” said Facebook’s spokesperson Alexandru Voica.
The confirmation of the new feature came as Facebook announced it would try to use Messenger to help health organizations push out accurate coronavirus information.
Early this week, Facebook Messenger said it’s launching a new program to help government health organizations and UN health agencies team up with developers so they can use the social network’s messaging service to share accurate information and respond to people’s questions.
Developers will help these groups for free in the wake of the pandemic, showing these critical organizations how to use Messenger to share timely information with local communities and speed up their replies to commonly asked questions with tools like automated responses.
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