Facebook to ban anti-vaccination ads

A new global policy would see Facebook prohibit anti-vaccination ads, with the company saying on Tuesday they “don’t want these ads on our platform.”

“We already don’t allow ads with vaccine hoaxes that have been publicly identified by leading global health organizations, such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),” Facebook officials said in an online statement.

“Now, if an ad explicitly discourages someone from getting a vaccine, we’ll reject it,” they added, noting that Facebook would be starting to enforce this policy “over the next few days.”