Despite Efforts by Instagram, Search Results for Covid-19 Vaccine Are Still Sketchy

Users are directed to credible resources like the CDC first, and must click through, but when they do …

Instagram said late Thursday that it will remove widely debunked claims about Covid-19 vaccines and direct users who search for terms related to vaccines or Covid-19 to information from credible health authorities.

However, as of the time of this post Friday, questionable accounts were just a couple of clicks away.

Searching for those terms brought up a prompt directing people to the website for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and when clicking through to continue to search results, the CDC was the top result, followed by Gavi,

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