"Facebook Accidentally Blocks Genuine COVID-19 News"

Fake news is a problem Facebook has been trying to deal with a lot, and COVID-19 is not making it more manageable.  On Monday, Facebook joined other social media sites on trying to scrub posts of fake news about COVID-19. After Facebook declared it was going to scrub COVID-19 posts of fake news, Facebook's automated systems failed to detect the difference between real and fake information in COVID-19 posts.  Since the automated systems failed, it led to posts with real news about COVID-19 to be seen as fake news, which led to the posts being taken down.  It is unknown what caused the automated systems to believe real news about the COVID-19 was fake, and Facebook did not mention how they fixed the problem.  All taken down posts about COVID-19 that had real information has been restored.  

Naked Security reports: "Facebook Accidentally Blocks Genuine COVID-19 News"