Facebook under fire after ads for anti-HIV drug PrEP deemed political Read moreAdvocates took note. “Doctors were citing these ads as reasons why people who should be on PrEP were not,” Ferraro says. Peter Staley of PrEP4All Collaboration noted that the company doesn’t always a take hands-off approach regarding the veracity of ads. “If they’re going to continue profiting off harming public health, our community is going to call them out,” Ferraro says. In a climate where trust in expertise is already dangerously low, the spread of doubt represents a big step backward in the fight against the greatest public health crisis of the past half-century.

Source: The Guardian December 14, 2019 11:00 UTC