So, How Will Facebook Handle Medical Misinformation?

When Facebook’s recent promise to help users get accurate health information hit my newsfeed, the words “medical misinformation” caught my eye (see Facebook to Limit Posts Promoting Medical Misinformation.) While misinformation on Facebook has gotten much attention in the realm of politics, there has been less coverage of medical misinformation on the Internet in general, and Facebook in particular.

In general, it’s impossible to know how much of the information on the internet qualifies as “medical information.” What we do know is that roughly seven percent of Google’s daily searches are health-related, amounting to one billion . . .