Facebook users cut wrong information rules with anti-vaccine profile frames

Three months after the company prohibits vaccine information errors, CNBC has found evidence of people who use one of the Facebook features itself to venture its policy. The company allows users to make special borders for their profile images which can then they upload so that other people can freely use them. The idea behind this is to allow individuals to show support for a purpose. But the border found by CNBC and Engadget revealed the types of anti-vaccine claims Facebook has tried to prevent the spread.

For example, Facebook explicitly prohibits content shows it is safer to pain from Covid-19 than vaccinated against it. However, many frames include the message of the company that as if it wasuged. “I trusted my immune system, not a shot,” said one of the borders. One more playing at Je Suis Charlie, a slogan that came out of Charlie Hebdo shooting in 2015, and the theory of 5G conspiracy circulating at the beginning of the pandemic. “Je Suis vaccine poured Le 5g,” he said. Strictly translated, “I was vaccinated for 5G.”

When CNBC reaches out to Facebook, it confirms the frame breaking its policy and that it works to delete it from the platform. In writing this article, it is still possible to add limits to your profile picture. Mostly, they are also trivial to be found. It is not clear how long the picture has existed, also not how many people add it to their profile images. However, such as other types of anti-vaccine content on social media, it seems only a handful of people who make many frames.

“We actively promote a profile frame that encourages people to share their support for the Covid-19 vaccine and delete anything that damages our rules,” said Facebook spokesman to Engadget. “More than five million people globally have used one of these profile frames to express support for vaccines, and more than half of people in the US on Facebook have seen someone using one of our profile frames which encourages support for vaccines.”

The company also pointed us to blog posts published on Tuesday which detailed the use of pro-vaccine profile frames. According to Facebook, more than 5 million users have added images to their profile images. It also claims that more than 50 percent of Facebook users in the US have seen profiles with frames developed with assistance from the Ministry of Health and US human services and centers for controlling and prevention of disease.

Update 4:31 ET: Facebook has deleted two profile frames highlighted by Engadget after we contact the company.