'Proof of vaccination requirement': Yelp adding businesses' COVID-19 guidelines to listings

Yelp is adding details to listings, truthful users tin spot what COVID-19 guidelines businesses person implemented.

Yelp users tin filter businesses based connected 2 caller attributes: "Proof of vaccination required" and "All unit afloat vaccinated," the app announced.

Yelp plans to proactively show the pages of businesses that adhd these attributes to forestall immoderate imaginable backlash.

"Yelp's Content Guidelines necessitate that each reviews beryllium based connected a first-hand user experience," Noorie Malik, Yelp's vice president of operations, said successful a blog station Thursday. "However, successful caller weeks, we've seen a emergence successful reviews focused connected people's stance connected COVID vaccinations alternatively than their existent acquisition with the business."

Yelp said that whenever a concern experiences antithetic enactment connected its listing specified arsenic "review bombing," a coordinated effort to station negative reviews to thrust down its rating, Yelp volition temporarily disable posting and spot an alert until enactment slows.

Yelp businesses tin item amenities specified arsenic disguise requirements and whether each staffers deterioration masks.

As the delta variant of the coronavirus spreads, governments and businesses person pushed for stricter vaccination requirements. Companies including Facebook and United Airlines volition necessitate their employees to get vaccinated earlier they instrumentality to the office.

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