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Two months after Facebook pledged to fight vaccine misinformation on its platforms, and in the midst of a measles outbreak in New York City, Instagram is still serving up posts from anti-vaccination accounts. My story: cnn.it/2VmS2Xq
"Vaccines are extremely safe. Serious adverse reactions are very, very rare. It's very unfortunate that there would be such a hashtag because it's going to scare people," said Daniel Salmon from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health about #VaccinesKill on Instagram
"They're doing the minimum to give the optics of some level of social corporate responsibility, without wanting to take on the anti-vaccine movement,"@PeterHotez, professor and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, tells me about IG
UPDATE: Instagram has now blocked the hashtag #VaccinesKill after my @CNNBusiness report yesterday. Story to come.
This is what happens when you search for the hashtag #VaccinesKill on Instagram now 
Instagram said Thursday it will now block additional hashtags that surface vaccine misinformation, but other hashtags and content promoted by anti-vaccination accounts are still thriving on the platform. Like #VaccinesHarm 😬. My new story: cnn.it/2vMrgZ1
