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TRENDING TOPICS, MOST CREDIBLE STORIES | | #1 in U.S. News • 45 articles What are the specifics of YouTube's ban on vaccine misinformation? |  | |
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YouTube bans vaccine misinformation.
The Verge (Moderate Left) • Factual Grade 81% • 2 min read
YouTube said that it won't allow videos that claim vaccines approved by health authorities are dangerous or don't work. YouTube will still allow videos that include people sharing their personal experiences. It'll remove that content if the channels they're on "demonstrate a pattern of promoting misinformation."
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The platform will also allow videos with information violating the policy if that video includes other context, like statements from medical experts. The platform is also banning the "Disinformation Dozen," a group identified by the Center for Countering Digital Hate as responsible for the bulk of misleading claims about vaccines on social media.
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The new policy expands to block misinformation around other vaccines, including the flu shot, the HPV vaccine, and the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine. Videos that inaccurately claim that the MMR vaccine causes autism or that the flu shot causes infertility, for example, will not be allowed under the new policy.
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YouTube announces crackdown on anti-vaccine content.
Washington Examiner (Moderate Right) • Factual Grade 68% • 2 min read - Top long-read
Free speech in a pandemic: Congress wrestles with drawing a line.
Christian Science Monitor (Center) • Factual Grade 91% • 10 min read
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| | #1 in Science News • 22 articles What's behind the extinction of 23 different species? |
It's a rare move for wildlife officials to give up hope on a plant or animal, but government scientists say they've exhausted efforts to find 23 [b...
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