YouTube to remove videos claiming COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous

YouTube announced on Wednesday a tightening of its policy against anti-vaccine content and indicated that its measures will not be limited to videos of disinformation about immunizers against COVID-19.

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“Videos with content that falsely claim that approved vaccines are dangerous and cause chronic health effects, that say that vaccines do not reduce disease transmission or cause disease, or that ”, the platform said in a statement.

YouTube said that the measure covers content according to which or who can mark those who receive them.

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Erroneous or misinformation videos about older vaccines such as the one in could also be removed from the site.

In counterpart, “The contents on vaccination policies, new vaccine trials as well as the historical successes or failures of vaccines” are still allowed as long as they respect YouTube’s rules.

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The platform has already taken measures against misinformation about the anticovid vaccines and said that they violated its regulations.

On Tuesday, it suspended the German accounts of Russian public television RT for broadcasting “false information about COVID-19 ″.

Moscow considered the sanction a censorship and threatened to block YouTube.

Big tech is being pressured to suppress or mitigate anti-vaccine content on their platforms, especially since the beginning of the pandemic.

In the middle of this month, Facebook presented a new tool against conspiracy or violent groups. He especially targeted the German “Querdenken” (“Anti-Conformist”) movement, which

Twitter also has a regulation on the subject and the right to withdraw content and punish in case of infractions is abrogated.

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