Labour calls for UK crackdown on tech firms over anti-vax content
by Aubrey Allegretti Political correspondent from on (#5TFHT)
Party says ministers failing to stand up to social media giants as posters continue to churn out disinformation
Ministers have been urged to take tougher action against companies that fail to stamp out anti-vaccination content online, as it was revealed posters with hundreds of thousands of followers on social media are still churning out disinformation.
After Boris Johnson said that up to 90% of patients with Covid in intensive care across England had not had their third booster vaccine, Labour accused the government of being complacent on a matter of life and death" and failing to stand up to social media giants.
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