Sunday, March 14, 2021

YouTube deletes 30,000 vaccine misinfo videos

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YouTube has removed more than 30,000 misleading Covid-19 vaccination videos in the past five months, it said.

A YouTube spokeswoman said the videos contradicted vaccine information from the World Health Organization (WHO) or health authorities such as the NHS.

In October, it banned vaccine misinformation in a bid to clamp down on attempts to discredit the jabs.

It added that in the past year, it had removed more than 800,000 videos for coronavirus misinformation.

That figure covers more than just vaccines, but wider "medically unsubstantiated" claims about the virus.



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