Social media: suicide promotion and anti-vaccine content must be banned, says BMA

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 …