YouTube has announced that videos describing cancer treatments that have proven harmful or have no effect or that discourage viewers from seeking professional medical treatments will be removed from the platform. Google will implement this policy when a disease that is risky enough to threaten public health, prone to misunderstandings, will require guidance from health authorities.YouTube’s medical misinformation policy
YouTube says it will take action against proposed treatments that are both harmful and replace unproven and widely accepted alternatives. The platform will also block other videos deemed harmful under its medical misinformation policy, including videos that contain instructions for unsafe abortion methods or encourage false claims about abortion safety.
YouTube removed videos containing false information about the Covid-19 vaccine in October 2020, and banned it completely at the end of 2021. He has worked with the world’s largest technology platforms to combat misinformation about COVID-19. Twitter stopped enforcing its Covid 19 misinformation policy at the end of 2022, while Meta withdrew the rules in countries where the disease is not considered a national emergency.
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