Facebook Is Now Deploying Notifications to Directly Tell People When They Have Engaged with Misinformation

Facebook is changing how it reaches people who have encountered misinformation on its platform. The company will now send notifications to anyone who has liked, commented, or shared a piece of COVID-19 misinformation that’s been taken down for violating the platform’s terms of service. It will then connect users with trustworthy sources in effort to correct the record.

Now, Facebook is reaching out directly with notifications that read: “We removed a post you liked that had false, potentially harmful information about COVID-19.”

Clicking on the notification will take users to a landing page where they can see a thumbnail image of the offending content, a description of whether they liked, shared, or commented on the post, and why it was removed from Facebook.