In March, as claims about the dangers and ineffectiveness of coronavirus vaccines spun across social media and undermined attempts to stop the spread of the virus, some Facebook employees thought they had found a way to help.
A review of internal Facebook documents shows researchers at the company found ways to limit vaccine misinformation on the platform, but some ideas went nowhere.
Facebook's own documents also reveal how comments on posts have been a hotbed for anti-vaccine messages, and researcher suggestions to turn them off were ignored.
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