YouTube Adds New Guidelines on Vaccines to Its Medical Misinformation Policy

Over 130,000 videos have been removed for violating its Covid-19 vaccine policies

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YouTube expanded its policies on medical misinformation to include new guidelines about vaccines.

The Google-owned video site said in a blog post Wednesday, “Our community guidelines already prohibit certain types of medical misinformation. We’ve long removed content that promotes harmful remedies, such as saying that drinking turpentine can cure diseases. At the onset of Covid-19, we built on these policies when the pandemic hit and worked with experts to develop 10 new policies around Covid-19 and medical misinformation.

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