Facebook and Instagram are going to add a banner on their News Feed to encourage folks to put on face masks, the corporate stated on Thursday. An alert will seem on the prime of News Feeds on Fb that directs customers to the COVID-19 Data Middle, and they’ll have hyperlinks to the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention for extra info. Instagram will embody an identical immediate with CDC hyperlinks.

The present CDC recommendation is for folks to put on masks in public areas to guard others against attainable an infection. The masks scale back the transmission of respiratory droplets which will spread the virus.

Fb has struggled to comprise coronavirus misinformation on its platforms in the course of the pandemic. The corporate has added new options to attempt to stem the flood of dangerous info, together with an alert to inform people who could have engaged with a submit that had false info.

The masks prompts will start showing on Instagram and Fb later as we speak, the corporate stated.