UNDATED (AP) – With vaccination against COVID-19 in full swing, social platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter say they’ve stepped up their fight against misinformation that aims to undermine trust in vaccines.
For years, those same platforms have allowed anti-vaccination propaganda to flourish, making it difficult to stamp out such sentiments now. A
nd their efforts to weed out other types of COVID-19 misinformation – often with fact-checks, informational labels and other restrained measures, have been woefully slow.
Efforts to crack down on vaccine misinformation are also generating cries of censorship.
