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Instagram is recommending Covid misinformation, including lies about the vaccines, to millions of users during the pandemic, a shocking new report claims.
Posts promoted by the Facebook-owned social network s algorithm include claims that Covid isn t real , vaccines are unsafe and kill children and that the pandemic is faked to give the government greater control over the population .
The report has been authored Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a UK non-profit organisation, which has also detected antisemitism, misinformation regarding last year s US election and QAnon content.
CCDH has published an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO and founder of Facebook, which has owned Instagram since 2012.
More than 12.8 million people have been vaccinated in the U.K., making it a leader in the world. But the pandemic has been devastating in the country, taking more than 113,000 lives a disproportionate amount of them from minority communities.
The country, with a population of about 67 million, plans to vaccinate 15 million people, those deemed most at risk of dying of COVID-19, by mid-February. After that, the government will target people aged 50 and over, along with those who have underlying health conditions. From the spring onwards, they ll begin vaccinating the rest of the adult population, which make up about 21 million people.