YouTube will remove all videos that misinform about vaccines

YouTube announced on Wednesday a tightening of its policy against anti-vaccine content and indicated that its measurements They won’t be limited to disinformation videos about COVID-19 vaccines.

“Videos with content falsely claiming that approved vaccines are unsafe will be removed. and they cause chronic health effects, which say vaccines do not reduce disease transmission or cause disease or contain misinformation about the substances used. “the platform said in a statement.

YouTube said that the measure covers the content that approved vaccines cause autism, cancer or infertility or that they can mark those who receive them.

Misleading or deceptive videos about older vaccines like RUBELLA Yeah Hepatitis B they could also be removed from the site.

In return, “content on immunization policies, trials of new vaccines as well as historical vaccine successes or failures ”are still permitted as long as they follow the YouTube rules.

The platform has already taken action against misinformation about anticovid vaccines and would have eliminated in one year more than 130 videos that violated their standards.

Tuesday suspended German accounts of Russian public television RT for spreading “false information about covid-19”.

Moscow considered the sanction to be a censorship and threatened to block YouTube.

Big techs are under pressure to remove or mitigate anti-vaccine content from their platforms, especially since the start of the pandemic.

In the middle of this month Facebook presented a new tool against conspiracy or violent groups. He particularly pointed the finger at the German movement “Querdenken” (“Anti-conformist”), which associates health measures against the pandemic with the deprivation of freedoms.

Twitter It also has regulations in this area and the right to withdraw content and sanction in the event of an infringement is abrogated.

(With information from AFP)

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