Product design question

Design a product for Facebook to fight COVID-19.

Practice this question out loud. An AI interviewer asks it, follows up like a real interviewer would, and scores your answer. Type or speak.

What this question tests

Product design under a real, urgent public health constraint, balancing usefulness with accuracy and safety.

Clarify the goal: connect users to accurate information and community resources during a fast moving, high stakes public health crisis.
Identify pain points: misinformation spreads quickly on social platforms, and users struggle to find trustworthy local guidance.
Prioritize misinformation reduction and authoritative source surfacing over community feature richness, since accuracy is the highest stakes need.
Propose a dedicated information hub linking directly to health authorities, plus down ranking or labeling unverified health claims in the feed.
Add a local resource finder, connecting users to testing sites, vaccination centers, or local mutual aid groups.
Define success as click through to authoritative sources and measured reduction in the spread of flagged misinformation posts.

Prioritizes accuracy and misinformation control first, correctly identifying it as the highest stakes need during a health crisis.
Proposes concrete mechanisms, authoritative source linking and misinformation labeling, rather than vague 'raise awareness' ideas.
Gives an illustrative number, e.g. assumes reducing the reach of flagged misinformation posts by 50 percent through down ranking.
Adds a genuinely useful local resource finder, connecting the informational goal to real world practical action.

Proposing generic community features without addressing misinformation, the most urgent problem during a health crisis.
Not naming any mechanism for identifying or handling false health claims.
No metric tied to actual information accuracy or misinformation spread reduction.

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