misinformation related to vaccination
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YouTube Announces Total Ban on Anti-Vaccine Videos
Everyone, please dramatically slow clap: YouTube says it will finally ban videos that lie about the effectiveness or nonexistent dangers of any vaccine — not just clips focused on covid-19 vaccines — and it has terminated the accounts of prominent antivaxxers like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Children’s Health Defence Fund and disgraced researcher Dr. Joseph…
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Facebook Announces Doomsday for False Vaccine Claims
For years, anti-vaccine conspiracy theories found a welcome home on Facebook. The social network saw the issue as being about free speech and the anti-vaxxer groups it hosted as being about as dangerous as flat-Earthers. But now that getting accurate vaccine information to the public is a matter of existential importance, Facebook says it’s launching…