{"id":12751,"date":"2019-09-19T15:38:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T15:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocialelement.agency\/us\/?p=12751"},"modified":"2019-09-19T15:38:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T15:38:57","slug":"combating-misinformation-and-the-spread-of-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocialelement.agency\/us\/combating-misinformation-and-the-spread-of-fake-news","title":{"rendered":"Combating misinformation and the spread of ‘fake news’"},"content":{"rendered":"
YouTube<\/span><\/a> has had fake cancer cure videos on the channel (as many as 80, the BBC found), during which adverts from brands such as Samsung, Heinz and Clinique are being shown. So not only is the content spreading misinformation, but the creators of those videos are making money from the advertising!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n An opinion poll of more than 2,000 Britons, commissioned by MHP and conducted by <\/span>ComRes<\/span><\/a> in May 2019, showed that 78% of people fear that inaccurate health information shared on social media will cause harm.\u00a0And 82% said that companies such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter should do more to stop health misinformation from spreading.<\/span><\/p>\n Facebook is addressing the issue of misinformation since the 2016 US Presidential Elections, by setting a third-party fact-checking program which it recently extended\u00a0 to <\/span>Instagram<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n