Amazon Is Making It Harder To Watch Anti-Vax Content On Its Platform
on some anti-vax videos and added additional information panels about vaccine hesitancy to anti-vax videos. Previously, the company announced via blogpost that it’s working to down-rank conspiracy theories in its “Up Next” recommendations.
Facebook also says it’s “currently working on additional changes” to “ reduce the distribution of health-related misinformation on Facebook,” and will announce “additional changes” soon. All three of these anti-vax titles, which were accessible on Amazon Prime Video on Friday morning, are no longer available for streaming.
In his letter, Schiff explicitly asked Amazon: “Does content which provides medically inaccurate information about vaccines violate your terms of service?” According to Amazon’sfor Prime Video, it bans “content that promotes, endorses, or incites the viewer to engage in dangerous or harmful acts.” A spokesperson for Amazon did not immediately respond to questions about whether that policy is related to the changes regarding anti-vax videos.
Although anti-vax videos like “Man Made Epidemic” that were previously accessible on Amazon Prime Video are no longer available to stream,
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