TIKTOK is allowing anti-vaxxers to spread deadly myths amid the Covid pandemic despite being warned about their content a year ago.
The social media giant is still hosting conspiracy theories from anti-vaccination fanatics claiming jabs are made from ‘sacrificed baby humans’ and murdered animals.
TikTok removed a number of misleading anti-vax videos last February following a Sun investigation.
But the accounts remain active and continue to share claims vaccines are ‘killing children’ and ingredients used in Covid jabs can cause heart attacks and cancer.
One video flagged to TikTok last year of a young female claiming vaccines contain ‘cocker spaniel kidney’ and ‘do not give you good health’ remained live on the site until today.
The same user has since shared videos claiming vaccines are ‘fraudulent science’ and scientists are ‘injuring and killing children’.
Another user Leini Ena, from Oregon, US, had a video removed last year claiming vaccines contain ‘aborted fetuses’.
But she has since shared material claiming Polysorbate 80 – which is a non-active ingredient of the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab – causes heart attacks and cancer.
The bogus claim appears to come from a disputed US study which alleged the compound, often used in food additives, could cause bowel cancer in mice.
NHS guidance states the mice had been fed volumes of the compound which would never be consumed by humans and were also given strong drugs both to cause cancer and trigger bowel inflammation.
Professor Thomas Sanders of King’s College, London, told Trending In The News: “We can’t assume this study is applicable to humans, so it shouldn’t be cause for concern.”
Covid vaccinations by Pfizer, Oxford university/AstraZeneca and Moderna have all been approved for use by Britain’s medicines regulator, the MHRA, after around nine months of clinical trials.
The trials each saw the vaccines tested on around 10,000 volunteers to establish their safety.
Deputy Chief Medical officer Jonathan Van Tam has said Covid vaccines are “the only way out” of the pandemic and yesterday told Sun readers that ‘tens of millions’ of Brits would need to receive a jab before lockdown restrictions can be lifted.
NHS guidance states vaccines do not cause allergies or other medical conditions and do not contain ingredients which cause harm in such small amounts.
It also clarifies vaccines are made up of bacteria and cells used to grow it are unlikely to be present in the final vaccine.
Chinese-owned TikTok has already come under fire from MPs for allowing anti-vaxxer ‘fanatics’ to spread lies about the life-saving Covid jab.
A recent study suggested a third of social media users have seen conspiracy theories discouraging them from receiving a Covid jab on social media.
SNP politician John Nicolson grilled director Theo Bartram about high-profile influencer Olivia Madison, who told her 40,000 followers the shot is made from ‘aborted foetuses’.
Mr Nicholson said: “[She is] very beautiful, and what she does is utterly wicked.
“If you can’t sort out somebody with 606,000 [likes], what chances are there that you’re going to get rid of the smaller fry?
“I mean this woman’s just screaming lies as publicly as she possibly can, [in] very professionally produced videos.”
TikTok later removed Ms Madison’s account.
