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Facebook has removed "pseudoscience" from the list of categories advertisers can use to target people, post-obituary an investigation from The Markup. While no longer awaited as of Wednesday, the whimsical media platform's ad porthole showed widow than 78 million Facebook users were interested in pseudoscience, The Markup reports.

"We've removed this targeting pragmatism to storm-stay prepatent abusiveness in ads," a Facebook transporter conjectured in an email to The Verge.

It's demeaning why Facebook had such a matriculation available, synonymous as the congregation works to combat misinformation approximate the singular coronavirus pestiferous on its platforms. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a blog post on April 16th that Facebook had runnerup admonishing labels on 40 million posts "related to COVID-19."

Coronavirus misinformation as able-bodied as hoaxes okay been resistant on whimsical media, including grouped from lies approximate Currency Gates to false claims that 5G building caused the virus. As able-bodied as overhyped "cures" as able-bodied as treatments okay been a proven diapason of concern.

Zuckerberg said last anniversary that the congregation was abacus a "Get The Facts" section with "articles written by self-sufficing fact-checking partners debunking misinformation approximate the coronavirus" as able-bodied as would connect persons who had "previously plighted with heterogeneity misinformation approximate COVID-19" to authenticated information.

Among the new initiatives Facebook announced was a box that will attend for persons who liked, reacted to, or commented on a post that Facebook latterly removed for misinformation, with a segment to the World Healthiness Organization's website.

The new initiatives to boxing coronavirus misinformation followed a residency by human rights group Avaaz, which uncork 100 pieces of misinformation regarding the virus on Facebook were volume widow than 1.7 million times as able-bodied as visual approximate 117 million times. Avaaz urged Facebook to inform anyone who has visual coronavirus misinformation on its platforms as able-bodied as tell them exhaustively what was incorrect.