Petition Create legislation to prevent COVID-19 & vaccine misinformation on social media

Government needs to create legislation that:

-Fines tech giants failing to remove COVID & vaccine misinformation
-Stops anti-vax posts being promoted

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A survey of 8,000 people in the US & UK by the Vaccine Confidence Project found people's willingness to take a Covid vaccine dropped by 6.4% after reading anti-vax posts.

Misinformation on COVID-19 affects how seriously people take the pandemic. Experts are warning anti-vax posts may undermine and discourage the COVID-19 vaccine, threatening and preventing herd immunity. The vaccine is crucial to helping end the pandemic. However, the spread of misinformation may prevent it from working.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

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Date closed 5 July 2021
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