TY - JOUR PY - 2019// TI - Social media: suicide promotion and anti-vaccine content must be banned, says BMA JO - BMJ A1 - Rimmer, Abi SP - l4425 EP - l4425 VL - 365 IS - N2 -

The UK government must implement standards to prevent social media from sharing content that promotes self harm or suicide as a way of dealing with mental health problems, doctors have said. Delegates at the BMA’s annual meeting in Belfast on 26 June voted for a motion saying that these standards should be binding on social media networks. Doctors at the conference also voted in favour of a motion calling for government standards to compel social media companies to “actively prevent the dispersal of false or misleading information on the effects of …

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LA - en SN - 0959-535X UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l4425 ID - ref1 ER -