YouTube Takes 3-Part Approach to Covid-19 Vaccine Education Efforts

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YouTube said Thursday that it has removed over 850,000 videos to date for violating its policies against Covid-19 misinformation, including more than 30,000 since the last quarter of 2020 specifically for misinformation related to the Covid-19 vaccine.

Director and global head of healthcare and public health partnerships Garth Graham wrote in a blog post Thursday, “YouTube is committed to leveraging our platform’s reach (2 billion-plus monthly logged-in viewers) and the diversity of the YouTube creator community to help make the science of Covid-19 vaccines easy to understand and more accessible to people all over the world.

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