{"id":17688,"date":"2020-03-19T16:14:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T16:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/facebook-will-put-a-new-coronavirus-info-center-on-top-of-the-news-feed.html"},"modified":"2020-03-19T16:14:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T16:14:19","slug":"facebook-will-put-a-new-coronavirus-info-center-on-top-of-the-news-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/facebook-will-put-a-new-coronavirus-info-center-on-top-of-the-news-feed.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook will put a new coronavirus info center on top of the News Feed"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an effort to disseminate trustworthy health information on COVID-19, Facebook <\/a> will roll out its own coronavirus information center, a central hub on the vast social network where the company will collect information from sources like the CDC and WHO.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to be putting it at the top of everyone\u2019s Facebook feed,\u201d Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a press call announcing the feature.<\/p>\n

The info center will roll out in \u201ca number\u201d of U.S. locations and some in Europe across the next 24 hours, with a more global rollout in the next few days.<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg says the goal is to get authoritative health information \u201cin front of everyone who uses our services.\u201d The information center will include prominent links to global health authorities, but also curated posts from celebrities, politicians and journalists to spread vetted useful health information to the broadest possible audience.<\/p>\n

\u201cWere designing it to be very adaptive on a day to day basis,\u201d Zuckerberg said. The center will include information that varies from location to location \u201cbecause the guidance is different in different countries.\u201d He noted that the company is coordinating with various governments to tailor that info.<\/p>\n

While Zuckerberg noted that Facebook has added plenty of disaster relief messaging and tools in the past, the novel coronavirus poses a larger challenge. \u201cWe\u2019ve never had to do it at the scale we\u2019re talking about here,\u201d Zuckerberg said.<\/p>\n

Facebook-owned WhatsApp, an infamous hotbed of hard-to-track misinformation, also added its own coronavirus info hub<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Along with its COVID-19 misinformation policing efforts, Facebook has banned ads and listings for medical face masks, a key element of protective gear for frontline medical workers that faces potentially critical global shortages. Even so, on the world\u2019s biggest social network, opportunists find a way<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Following Microsoft, Facebook also made an early commitment to pay hourly workers<\/a> impacted by office closures, as many non-salaried workers around the world fear for their livelihoods.<\/p>\n

The novel coronavirus has upended the global economy and created broad chaos in the business world, even for tech\u2019s most adaptable, well-resourced giants. With every major tech event canceled or made remote, including Facebook\u2019s F8 developer conference<\/a>, the year is taking a very different shape than anyone in the industry could have anticipated.<\/p>\n

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