{"id":183077,"date":"2021-09-30T09:31:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T04:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/story-2558597"},"modified":"2021-09-30T14:31:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T09:01:08","slug":"youtube-goes-beyond-covid-19-misinformation-to-block-all-anti-vaccine-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/youtube-goes-beyond-covid-19-misinformation-to-block-all-anti-vaccine-content\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Goes Beyond COVID-19 Misinformation to Block All Anti-Vaccine Content"},"content":{"rendered":"
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YouTube will block all anti-vaccine content, moving beyond its ban on false information about the COVID vaccines to include content that contains misinformation about other approved vaccines, it said in a blog post on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Examples of content that won’t be allowed on YouTube<\/a> include claims that the flu vaccine causes infertility and that the MMR shot, which protects against measles, mumps, and rubella, can cause autism, according to YouTube’s policies.<\/p>\n

The online video company owned by Alphabet<\/a> is also banning channels associated with several prominent anti-vaccine activists including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Joseph Mercola, a YouTube spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

A press email for Mercola’s website said in a statement: “We are united across the world, we will not live in fear, we will stand together and restore our freedoms.”<\/p>\n

Kennedy said in a statement: “There is no instance in history when censorship and secrecy has advanced either democracy or public health.\u201d<\/p>\n

The moves come as YouTube and other tech giants like Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and Twitter<\/a>\u00a0have been criticised for not doing enough to stop the spread of false health information on their sites.<\/p>\n

But even as YouTube takes a tougher stance on misinformation, it faces backlash around the world. On Tuesday, Russian state-backed broadcaster RT’s German-language channels were deleted from YouTube, as the company said the channels had breached its COVID-19<\/a> misinformation policy.<\/p>\n

Russia on Wednesday called the move “unprecedented information aggression,” and threatened to block YouTube.<\/p>\n

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