Facebook Bans Ads Promoting Cures for or Prevention of Coronavirus

Amazon began doing the same last week with third-party merchants on its platform

Facebook began banning ads that promise to cure or prevent coronavirus, adding to the efforts it began late last month to have its third-party fact-checkers sniff out posts with false claims about the Covid-19 outbreak.

According to the World Health Organization, antibiotics cannot help cure coronavirus, as they only work on bacterial infections, and there is currently no vaccine or specific antiviral medication that prevents or treats Covid-19, although some potential vaccines and treatments are in the testing stage.

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