FACEBOOK HEALTH NEWS: HARMFUL TO THE READERS?

On the fifth of February 2019, an article written by Chelsea Ritschel from The Independent was posted on their website. It discussed in detail a lot of the health stories published on the social media giant Facebook had a fair amount of potentially harmful misinformation. Facebook has been aware of this issue, and says it wants to implement ways to fight back, like third party checking. Indeed, scientists and researchers at Health Feedback and the Credibility Coalition, two networks dedicated to analyze news articles, decided to scrutinize some of the most shared health articles of the…