Google to ban any apps that challenge mainstream medical narrative

By Around the Web

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(PRINCIPIA SCIENTIFIC) – The Android app store, Google Play, has introduced sweeping new rules that ban apps containing what the tech giant deems to be “misleading health claims that contradict existing medical consensus, or can cause harm to users.” The new rules are part of a Google Play “health misinformation” policy that came into force on August 31.

Some of the examples of in-app content that’s banned under this new policy include “misleading claims about vaccines, such as that vaccines can alter one’s DNA,” “advocacy of harmful, unapproved treatments,” and “advocacy of other harmful health practices, such as conversion therapy.”

Google’s new policy comes at a time when the medical consensus has changed multiple times over the last few years.

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