Amazon pulled anti-vax films from Prime Video after Rep. Adam Schiff expressed concerns about this, but it still lists one film as 'Amazon's Choice.'
"I am writing out of my concern that Amazon is surfacing and recommending products and content that discourage parents from vaccinating their children, a direct threat to public health, and reversing progress made in tackling vaccine-preventable diseases," Schiff wrote.Man Made Epidemic, Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe, Shoot 'Em Up - The Truth About Vaccinesare no longer available to Prime members for free streaming. However, DVDs of those films are still available.
According to the World Health Organization, immunization is proven to eliminate life-threatening infectious diseases and is estimated to prevent 2 and 3 million deaths annually.their children. In his letter, Schiff brought up Washington state declaring a public health emergency because of a measles epidemic that broke out in Clark County -- a disease that can be easily prevented with vaccines.
Schiff said that one of the causes of this trend is medically inaccurate information about vaccines online. "As the largest online marketplace in the world, Amazon is in a unique position to shape consumption," Schiff wrote."Yet the algorithms which power social media platforms and Amazon's recommendations are not designed to distinguish quality information from misinformation or misleading information and, as a result, harmful anti-vaccine messages have been able to thrive and spread.
Schiff also said he was concerned about Amazon accepting and promoting paid advertising that includes misinformation about vaccines. He expressed concerns over parents seeing information on Amazon searches and recommendations and then choosing not to have their children vaccinated. In addition, he said that parents who are looking for accurate information could end up finding videos with misinformation about vaccines.
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