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https://www.freep.com/story/opinion...k-fake-news-vaccines-anti-vaxxers/3446475002/
An Editorial on the Media outlets role in handling the measles issue. Note the movie in question is on Vaxxed an Andrew Wakefield Movie thats been getting attention recently Amazon Prime and Netflix were some of the outlets getting backlash for the release of the movie.
Just like Youtube places like Netflix and Amazon Prime are going to have to deal with reforms over what content gets aired or not given their guidelines.
An Editorial on the Media outlets role in handling the measles issue. Note the movie in question is on Vaxxed an Andrew Wakefield Movie thats been getting attention recently Amazon Prime and Netflix were some of the outlets getting backlash for the release of the movie.
A massive study of Danish children released last month was only the latest to find no evidence supporting Wakefield's claim that the vaccine commonly administered to protect against measles, mumps and rubella increases the recipients' risk of autism.
But "Vaxxed: From Cover-up to Catastrophe," a 2016 documentary Wakefield directed, was still being distributed by Amazon Prime Video, Netflix and other streaming services until this year, when distributors finally yielded to objections raised by doctors' groups, public health advocates and congressional critics.
Amazon pulled "Vaxxed" and at least four other anti-vaccination videos from its Prime Video line-up last month after California Congressman Adam Schiff fired off a letter warning Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos that his company might be abetting a public health crisis.
"There is strong evidence to suggest that at least part of the source of this [anti-vaccination] trend is the degree to which medically inaccurate information about vaccines surfaceon the websites where many Americans get their information, among them Amazon," Schiff wrote. ". . . 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."
Netflix and Hulu have also eliminated anti-vaxxer videos from their line-ups, although it's unclear when or why they chose to do so.
Just like Youtube places like Netflix and Amazon Prime are going to have to deal with reforms over what content gets aired or not given their guidelines.