The new indicators device is a reaction to what the World Health Organisation calls the "infodemic" round Covid-19.
An impartial take a look at suggests that the platform "sits at the epicentre of coronavirus misinformation".
Facebook says the research doesn't replicate the work it has achieved recently.
The California tech company says it'll start displaying the messages at the top of information feeds "in the coming weeks".
Truth redirect
The messages will direct human beings to a World Health Organisation web site wherein myths are debunked.
A Facebook spokesman stated the move will "join individuals who may additionally have interacted with harmful misinformation approximately the virus with the fact from authoritative sources, in case they see or hear those claims once more off of Facebook".
The changes had been induced by using a main take a look at of incorrect information at the platform across six languages through Avaaz, a crowd-funded activist group.
Researchers say thousands and thousands of Facebook customers continue to be uncovered to coronavirus misinformation, with none warning on the platform.
The group observed a number of the most dangerous falsehoods had acquired loads of hundreds of perspectives, together with claims like "black humans are immune to coronavirus" and "Coronavirus is destroyed by chlorine dioxide".
Avaaz researchers analysed a pattern of greater than a hundred pieces of Facebook coronavirus incorrect information at the website's English, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Italian and French variations.
The studies found that:
- It can take the agency up to 22 days to trouble caution labels for coronavirus incorrect information, with delays even when Facebook companions had flagged the dangerous content for the platform.
- 29% of false content inside the sample become no longer labelled in any respect at the English language version of the internet site
- It is worse in some other languages, with sixty eight% of Italian-language content, 70% of Spanish-language content, and 50% of Portuguese-language content material not labelled as false
- Facebook's Arabic language efforts are extra a hit, with simplest 22% of the sample of misleading posts final unlabelled.
- Facebook says it is continuing to increase its multilingual network of reality-checkers issuing grants and partnering with relied on establishments in more than 50 languages.
- Fadi Quran, Campaign Director at Avaaz said: "Facebook sits on the epicenter of the incorrect information disaster.
"But the enterprise is popping a essential nook today to smooth up this poisonous data environment, becoming the first social media platform to alert all users who have been uncovered to coronavirus incorrect information, and directing them to life-saving data."
One of the falsehoods that researchers tracked was the claim that human beings ought to rid the body of the virus via ingesting a variety of water and gargling with salt or vinegar. The put up changed into shared more than 31,000 instances before ultimately being taken down after Avaaz flagged it to Facebook.
However, more than 2,six hundred clones of the post remain at the platform, with almost one hundred,000 interactions and most of those cloned posts don't have any caution labels from Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and chief govt, defended his company's work in an online submit announcing: "On Facebook and Instagram, we've got now directed greater than billion people to authoritative health sources via our Covid-19 Information Center and academic pop-ups, with greater than 350 million human beings clicking thru to analyze extra
"If a bit of content contains dangerous incorrect information that could lead to forthcoming bodily damage, then we're going to take it down. We've taken down loads of hundreds of pieces of misinformation related to Covid-19, consisting of theories like drinking bleach treatment options the virus or that bodily distancing is useless at stopping the sickness from spreading. For other misinformation, once it's far rated false by using reality-checkers, we lessen its distribution, practice caution labels with greater context and find duplicates."
Mr Zuckerberg insists that caution pop-united statesare working, with ninety five% of users deciding on to now not view the content whilst supplied with the labels.
"I suppose this present day step is a superb flow from Facebook and we've seen a much more proactive stance to incorrect information in this pandemic than throughout other situations like the US elections", says Emily Taylor, partner fellow at Chatham House and an professional at social media incorrect information.
"We don't know if it's going to make a massive difference however it is got to be well worth a try due to the fact the distinction among misinformation in a health disaster and an election is actually that lives are at stake," she said.
