Facebook bans false claims about Covid-19 vaccines

Facebook Inc said it would remove false claims about Covid-19 vaccines that have been debunked by public health experts, following a similar announcement by Alphabet Inc's YouTube in October.

The move expands Facebook's current rules against falsehoods and conspiracy theories about the pandemic. The social media company says it takes down coronavirus misinformation that poses a risk of "imminent" harm while labelling and reducing distribution of other false claims that fail to reach that threshold...