But instead, it is actively steering many toward explicitly anti-vaccine content and misinformation amid a global pandemic. And if a user follows even one of those accounts after a simple “vaccine” search, the platform sucks them in even further. Earlier this month, Facebook and Instagram were widely lauded for announcing a new policy to remove posts spreading misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines. However, that policy does not apply to misinformation about vaccines in general, Facebook confirmed to HuffPost. Company officials did not dispute that anti-vaccine accounts would show up in search bars, as HuffPost observed.

Source: Huffington Post December 18, 2020 22:07 UTC