Have you liked or commented on coronavirus misinformation? Facebook will let you know

If you’ve been duped by coronavirus fake news, Facebook says it will soon let you know.

Facebook announced Thursday new measures to combat the spread of misinformation related to COVID-19. In the next few weeks, it will begin showing messages in your News Feed if you have “liked,” reacted or commented on coronavirus misinformation the platform has since removed.

Messages will link to the World Health Organization’s myth busters page, which debunks hoaxes that have spread across social media.

“We want to connect people who may have interacted with harmful misinformation about the virus with the truth from authoritative sources in case they see or hear these claims again off Facebook,” the social media giant announced Thursday.

Facebook has also added a section called “Get the Facts,” where fact-checked articles will be posted about coronavirus, it announced. The company says it works with more than 60 fact-checking organizations to comb through content in more than 50 languages.

Ads that promise treatments and cures to coronavirus have been banned on Facebook, according to the Associated Press. Many conspiracy theories and hoaxes have continued to spread on Facebook and other social media platforms.

While Facebook says it is removing fake news regarding coronavirus, nonprofit activist network Avaaz found that 40 percent of coronavirus misinformation remains on the platform.

Avaaz analyzed more than 100 pieces of fake coronavirus claims on the social media platform and found they were shared more than 1.7 million times and had garnered more than 117 million views, the organization said.

“Facebook, given its scale, is the epicenter for misinformation,” Fadi Quran, Avaaz’s campaign director, told Politico.

Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, wrote on the platform Thursday that his company has “taken down hundreds of thousands of pieces of misinformation related to COVID-19, including theories like drinking bleach cures the virus or that physical distancing is ineffective at preventing the disease from spreading.”

Buzzfeed has a running list of hoaxes spread on social media, some of which have gone viral on Facebook or Twitter.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday the world is facing “a dangerous epidemic of misinformation” about the virus. He announced a new initiative to spread coronavirus facts and science, “countering the courage of misinformation — a poison putting more lives at risk.”