Facebook is stepping up efforts to combat misinformation about the coronavirus spread through the company's messaging app. This time, Facebook has launched a program that will help healthcare organizations team up with developers to create tools that enable Messenger app users to get reliable information about a dangerous disease.
Using a proprietary messaging service, medical organizations together with developers will be able to create free solutions, such as chatbots, that will help users get answers to questions related to coronavirus, as well as find out reliable news.
The Argentine Ministry of Health has already started using the Messenger platform. It has launched a program in which users will be able to get answers to their questions about the coronavirus. UNICEF and Pakistan's Ministry of Health have also begun using Messenger to provide citizens with accurate information about the coronavirus and combat false facts. Most likely, in the near future, medical organizations in other countries will begin to use Facebook messenger to help citizens.
Let's remember that last week Facebook launched an information center, which can be accessed from the news feed of the company's social network. It collects authenticated materials about coronavirus. A few days ago, the official chatbot of the World Health Organization was launched on the Facebook-owned WhatsApp messenger, designed to provide reliable facts about the coronavirus.
Source: 3dnews.ru