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After insisting for years that false claims about vaccines are better left up to be debunked, Facebook announced last month that it would remove misinformation about the safety and efficacy of the coronavirus vaccine, citing “imminent physical harm.”
More than a month later, anti-vaccine accounts are still spreading misinformation, according to one monitor, while others have merely moved on to another one of Zuckerberg’s social media platforms: Instagram.