Labour calls for clampdown on anti-vaxxer content

Labour has called for a clampdown on vaccine misinformation following a group of protestors vandalising an NHS test and trace centre in Milton Keynes yesterday.

Shadow culture secretary Lucy Powell spoke to LBC this morning, warning that false information online was causing huge damage to society and social media platforms need to enforce their own policies to combat harmful content getting online.

“Without the power of the platforms… they would struggle to share that information.

“It is important we take this collective action, that we bring together the big tech platforms, that we make them enforce their own policies.”

According to Labour, prominent anti-vaxxers on major social networking sites have nearly 1.5 million followers.