Drugs for Sale Plague Social Media Platforms
Digital Citizens Alliance and Coalition for a Safer Web Find Opioids, Steroids, and COVID-19 "Vaccines" For Sale… Again
Platforms Take Down Most Individual Pages Exposed in Media Reports, but Fail to Solve the Systemic Problem
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WASHINGTON, March 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Social media platforms continue to have difficulty removing illegal offers of opioids, steroids and COVID-19 "vaccines." Even after they have been alerted of specific posts and long past when they have made public pledges to do a better job of making their services safe for U.S. consumers, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Telegram are not backing their words with action, new research from the Digital Citizens Alliance (Digital Citizens) and the Coalition for a Safer Web (CSW) shows.