Elizabeth Warren To Amazon: Stop 'Peddling Misinformation About COVID-19'
Sen. Elizabeth Warren took Amazon to task this week over concerns that the company’s search results are “peddling misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.”
In a Tuesday letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, the Massachusetts Democrat lambasted the retail giant for “practices that mislead consumers about COVID-19 prevention or treatment.” She demanded the company explain search algorithms that return books promoting conspiracy theories and anti-vaccine disinformation in the top results.
Warren said her staff searched Amazon for terms like “COVID-19,” “COVID,” “vaccine,” “COVID 19 vaccine” and “pandemic” only to find that the top results “consistently included highly-ranked and favorably-tagged books based on falsehoods about COVID-19 vaccines and cures.”
One book mentioned in the letter is “The Truth About Covid-19: Exposing the Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal,” which was co-written by a doctor whom experts have widely called out for spreading misinformation.
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