Science journal calls on scientists to combat Facebook misinformation

While the pandemic has seen the rise of numerous credible scientists who have amassed large followings on Twitter, the same is not true on Facebook. AFP)

WASHINGTON: Leading US journal Science on Sept 30 issued a rare editorial calling for scientists to fight back against the Covid misinformation that proliferates on Facebook.

“The pandemic has revealed shocking ineptness by the scientific establishment at conveying messages about masks, vaccination, or the dangers of consuming horse drugs and aquarium cleaner," wrote editor-in-chief H. Holden Thorp.