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(Reclaim The Net) — YouTube, the titan of online video content, has expanded its COVID misinformation policy to cover what it calls all forms of medical misinformation.
YouTube has also declared its plan to de-list videos promoting “cancer treatments proven to be harmful or ineffective,” effectively disallowing content creators from encouraging natural cures.
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The platform pledges to implement its medical misinformation policies when a topic exhibits high public health risks, is supposedly prone to misinformation, and when official guidance from health authorities is accessible to the public.
The changes also see YouTube recommitting to groups such as the WHO and other health bodies on what information is deemed to be acceptable for people to talk about on the platform – despite these institutions having recently received major blows to their credibility.
According to the policy update, YouTube will no longer host content that:
Misinforms about prevention techniques or contradicts current health
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