Discussion

• @brianstelter Brian Stelter on x

  Just announced: “Educational pop-up windows will appear” on Facebook and Instagram “when a user searches for vaccine-related content, visits vaccine-related Facebook groups and pages, or taps a vaccine-related hashtag on Instagram” https://www.cnn.com/...

• @brandyzadrozny Brandy Zadrozny on x

  Oh sheesh. We have been trained our entire digital lives to ignore pop-ups. https://twitter.com/...

• @peterhotez Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD on x

  A good step, but at last check, all of the really horrible misinformation FB sites are still there. Even worse @amazon. Until social media/e-commerce make substantive changes in content, children will be denied MMR vaccine, teenagers their cancer vaccine https://www.cnn.com/...

• @erinbiba Erin Biba on x

  This is very good!!! But also it's bad that Facebook is still letting people post anti-vax rheortic and “see posts anyway.” https://www.cnn.com/...

• @vaccinologist Dr. Melvin Sanicas on x

  “The World Health Organization & Facebook have been in discussions for several months to ensure people will be able to access authoritative #information on #vaccines & reduce the spread of inaccuracies,” @WHO Director-General @DrTedros https://edition.cnn.com/...

• @mattnavarra Matt Navarra on x

  Facebook debuts vaccine pop-up windows to stop the spread of misinformation https://edition.cnn.com/... Here's what they will look like... https://twitter.com/...