Turns out Facebook Allows Anti-Vaccine Ads

Social media giant Facebook announced in February about all vaccines, including the COVID-19 vaccine. Content containing false/false information will be removed. had explained. However, the company said,Ads claiming that vaccines are not safe or healthy or will result in death or injury” and “Advertisements that are inconsistent with information provided by health authorities (including local health authorities) about the vaccine“before that banned from the platform.

According to the information under the title of “Withdrawal from Vaccination” in Facebook’s Legal Contents list, only “”ads discussing vaccine legislation” is allowed. But the other day, Facebook allowed ads combining anti-vaccine and Nazi Germany. Ads show the US government’s fight against COVID-19 to the period of Nazi Germany compared it.

Advertisements were given with ugly expressions.

According to the information conveyed by CNN, the ads were broadcast by commercial companies. In one of the advertisements, “I am originally from America, but now I live in 1941 Germany”, in the other the slogan “Make America great again”, which was used as the election slogan of Donald Trump, “Make hanging traitors great again” was in a modified form. Another advertisement compared the introduction of vaccines to genocide.

It turned out that these ads were published on Facebook for hundreds of thousands of dollars in payment. The company that posted the second ad, Ride the Wave, has been on Facebook for ads since May. from 280 thousand dollars had overpaid. The page had less than 10,000 followers but was reaching millions by paying Facebook.

Next Level Goods, another company that advertises on Facebook, has been around since 2019. more than 500 thousand dollars spent on advertising. It turned out that the company regularly posts ads for anti-vaccine t-shirts on Facebook. It was seen that the company took down some related ads.