For this initiative, the company is teaming up with
Ravenswood Family Health Centre, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg wrote
in a post.
"We're also teaming up with the State of California and
local nonprofits to support mobile vaccination clinics in four of the state's
hardest hit regions," wrote Sandberg.
Earlier this year, the social media company decided to
launch a tool to give people in the US information about where to get COVID-19
vaccines and added a COVID-19 information area to its photo-sharing site,
Instagram.
Facebook's Chief Product Officer Chris Cox said in an
interview that the company had taken viral false claims "very
seriously" but said there was "a huge grey area of people who have
concerns... some of which some people would call misinformation and some of
which other people would call doubt". "The best thing to do in that
huge grey area is just to show up with authoritative information in a helpful
way, be a part of the conversation and do it with health experts," he
added.
The company said it was labelling Facebook and Instagram
posts that discuss the safety of COVID-19 vaccines with text saying the
vaccines go through safety and effectiveness tests before approval. In the blog
post, it also said that since expanding its list of banned false claims about
the coronavirus and vaccines in February, it has removed an additional two
million pieces of content from Facebook and Instagram.
© Reuters
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