Washington: Facebook has decided to ban medical mask related advertisements permanently so that this social media platform cannot be used to further raise people’s concerns about the corona virus. The company said that in addition to the ban on advertisements on the social media platform, the company will be banned from posting posts on the Facebook marketplace for commercial purposes.
Facebook said that it will start banning in the next few days. “Our teams are closely monitoring the status of covid-19 and if we feel that people try to take advantage of this public health emergency,” said Rob Leathern, the company’s product management director, in a statement released late Friday. If doing, then we will make necessary changes in our policies.
Even before this, Facebook had decided to ban advertisements making false claims about the new Corona virus. These advertisements are related to such products in which all claims have been made about this virus. The social networking company said on Thursday that it is removing such advertisements that mention a product and also wrote that its supply is limited.
Apart from this, such advertisements are also being removed in which the protection or treatment of the virus is guaranteed. Some public health officials have appealed to the people to stop buying masks and said that they are not effective in protecting public health.
