Security News > 2021 > August > Facebook sat on report that reveals most-shared post for months was questionable COVID story
Facebook has revealed a report that shows the most-shared link on the platform in the first three months of 2021 described questionable interpretation of a death attributed to a COVID-19 vaccination - but only did so after publishing a later and more flattering report.
The document wasn't Facebook's first such report.
The most-shared external post in Q1 was to a story reporting the death of a Florida obstetrician two weeks after receiving a COVID-19 vaccination, and authorities' investigation of whether the jab contributed to the demise of the generally healthy man.
The report stated the incident was "Possibly the nation's first death linked to the vaccine" but later updated the story with additional information that no link between the jab and the death had been found.
Facebook's secret Q1 report states the story was shared over 53 million times.
Stone did not address the fact that Facebook billed the Q2 report as its first such effort when it had already compiled, but chose not to release, the Q1 report.