Speaking to CNN host Brian Stelter, Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube, said that any content that goes against the statements and recommendations of the World Health Organization would be deleted from the platform.
The CEO said that the platform had seen an increase of 70% in the news from authoritative sources from the start of the year. Evidently, there was a lot of demand for it.
Susan continued by saying that seeing the demand the team discussed increasing the authoritative information. However, they also talked about taking down misleading information.
This means that they will be removing information, which is medically unverifiable. So people who are sharing information like turmeric, garlic, or Vitamin C will cure the virus will be taken down. These are some examples that reflect policy violations.
She added that any content that goes against the recommendation of the World Health Organization would directly be against YouTube’s policy, and will be removed.
A live-streamed video with David Icke was aired on YouTube where he talked about coronavirus. He suggested that there is a connection between 5G and coronavirus.
The popularly known “conspiracy theorist” also said that the vaccine for this would be something like a nanotechnology microchip that will control the humans, and people like Bill Gates should be imprisoned for this.
This video was aired on April 6th, 2020, and YouTube soon took it down.
YouTube also removed the video of Jair Messias, the President of Brazil where he overemphasized the potentials of hydroxychloroquine and claimed that it was the best COVID-9 treatment.
The president in his statement said that there is no vaccination to treat COVID-19, but he thinks that hydroxychloroquine is proving to be quite effective and soon it will make the virus disappear.
On April 7th, 2020, Axios reported that YouTube is aggressively enforcing policies to stop the spread of false information that encourages people not to get medical assistance.
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