For obvious public health reasons, Instagram will act against the anti-vaccine movement. It will not let us follow hashtags that support not vaccinating children against preventable diseases.
The recent cases of diseases that have reappeared in recent years have as their origin the so-called anti-vaccine movement. A totally unscientific vision that ignores dozens of years of research against diseases. Instagram is going to take action on the matter and isolate the publications with that theme so that their ideas do not spread, a somewhat ironic move.
Faced with the profusion of preventable diseases, isolation in social networks
As if it were a great reflection that vaccines make by using group immunity and reducing the spread of disease, Instagram will isolate hashtags from posts with anti-vaccine messages. A friend or publication that we follow may post images and messages that spread false information about vaccines. You know, those that say they cause autism or are a scam of the pharmaceutical companies.
This block will be applied to all the hashtags that the publications use even if they do not make direct reference to encouraging your children not to be vaccinated. If we click on one of these hashtags, we will not see any more posts and it will appear that it is an isolated hashtag, thus reducing its spread.
Social networks such as isntagram have a strong role in this public health problem since their platform is used by influential people who spread false information. And yes, we say public health problems because, remember, notable outbreaks of diseases that had been eradicated years ago through vaccines and group immunity have reappeared. It is something that the infant mortality data itself shows us or a game to Plague Inc in which our condition of defeat is that they develop a vaccine against our deadly disease that we are trying to spread.
Source: endgadet
