Adam Schiff calls Amazon's anti-vaccination content 'direct threat to public health' in letter to Bezos
Amazon's surfacing of products and content that discourage vaccinations has caught the ire of U.S. lawmakers.
"There is strong evidence to suggest that at least part of the source of this trend is the degree to which medically inaccurate information about vaccines surface on the websites where many Americans get their information, among them Amazon," Schiff wrote."As the largest online marketplace in the world, Amazon is in a unique position to shape consumption.
Earlier this month, Schiff sent an open letter to both Facebook and Google to express similar concerns, and both companies said they would submit a response. CNN recently found anti-vaccination books for sale on Amazon, with titles like"We Don't Vaccinate!" and"Shoot 'Em Up: The Truth About Vaccines," as well as similar content available to stream through Amazon Prime.
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