“The report says there is little evidence that calls for major platforms to remove offending content will limit scientific misinformation’s harms and warns such measures could even drive it to harder-to-address corners of the internet and exacerbate feelings of distrust in authorities.”
The UK’s national academy of science looked for evidence that takedowns work and found little. Deleting posts pushes believers somewhere harder to reach and confirms their suspicion that someone is hiding something. Censorship feels like action, and the scientists say it doesn’t work.