Instagram's Search Results For Vaccines Are A Public Health Nightmare

By promoting anti-vax misinformation, the platform legitimizes distrust in vaccines.

This is causing real damage to public health.Within hours of the WHO declaring the coronavirus outbreak an international public health emergency on Thursday,that they would remove content containing misinformation about the epidemic from their platforms. But the very next day, Instagram’s algorithm served up false information about the virus to HuffPost, such as the post baselessly claiming that it is spread by vaccines.

But Instagram’s enforcement of this policy can seem arbitrary and, in some cases, alarmingly misguided. #SexualHealth is blocked, whereas #KillBlackPeople is not.Despite vowing 11 months agothat consistently surface vaccine-related misinformation, Instagram still allows the use of #AntiVax and #AntiVaxx, though viewers are prompted to visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website before accessing the associated posts.

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