{"id":831723,"date":"2021-09-30T13:59:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T17:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=831723"},"modified":"2021-09-30T13:59:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T17:59:52","slug":"youtube-expanding-censorship-policy-to-ban-all-medical-vaccine-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youtube-expanding-censorship-policy-to-ban-all-medical-vaccine-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube \u2018Expanding\u2019 Censorship Policy To Ban All Medical, Vaccine \u2018Misinformation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyoutube-expanding-censorship-policy-to-ban-all-medical-vaccine-misinformation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=831723&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1220243620-e1633021241941.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>On Wednesday, YouTube announced that they would be expanding their \u201cmedical misinformation policies\u201d with new guidelines relating to the subject of vaccines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span><span>Crafting policy around medical misinformation comes charged with inherent challenges and tradeoffs. Scientific understanding evolves as new research emerges, and firsthand, personal experience regularly plays a powerful role in online discourse,\u201d YouTube stated in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.youtube\/news-and-events\/managing-harmful-vaccine-content-youtube\/\"><span>blog post<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cVaccines, in particular, have been a source of fierce debate over the years, despite consistent guidance from health authorities about their effectiveness.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cToday, we\u2019re expanding our medical misinformation policies on YouTube with new guidelines on currently administered vaccines that are approved and confirmed to be safe and effective by local health authorities and the WHO,\u201d the Big Tech giant announced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>YouTube explained that they had previously removed \u201cover 130,000 videos\u201d for violating their COVID-19 vaccine policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThroughout this work, we learned important lessons about how to design and enforce nuanced medical misinformation policies at scale. Working closely with health authorities, we looked to balance our commitment to an open platform with the need to remove egregious harmful content,\u201d YouTube continued. \u201cWe\u2019ve steadily seen false claims about the coronavirus vaccines spill over into misinformation about vaccines in general, and we\u2019re now at a point where it\u2019s more important than ever to expand the work we started with COVID-19 to other vaccines.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>YouTube then listed specific content which would violate their new policy standards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSpecifically, content that falsely alleges that approved vaccines are dangerous and cause chronic health effects, claims that vaccines do not reduce transmission or contraction of disease, or contains misinformation on the substances contained in vaccines will be removed,\u201d YouTube announced. \u201cThis would include content that falsely says that approved vaccines cause autism, cancer or infertility, or that substances in vaccines can track those who receive them. Our policies not only cover specific routine immunizations like for measles or Hepatitis B, but also apply to general statements about vaccines.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>YouTube also added that there are \u201cimportant exceptions\u201d to the new guidelines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cGiven the importance of public discussion and debate to the scientific process, we will continue to allow content about vaccine policies, new vaccine trials, and historical vaccine successes or failures on YouTube. Personal testimonials relating to vaccines will also be allowed, so long as the video doesn\u2019t violate other Community Guidelines, or the channel doesn\u2019t show a pattern of promoting vaccine hesitancy,\u201d YouTube added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As part of this announcement, YouTube banned the accounts of numerous prominent anti-vaccine activists. This policy decision also means that YouTube is more aligned with its social media rivals Facebook and Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In February, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/08\/technology\/facebook-vaccine-misinformation.html\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><span> announced that they planned to remove or demote posts which either spread so-called \u201cvaccine misinformation,\u201d or included content that discouraged vaccinations more generally in certain cases. In March, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/help.twitter.com\/en\/rules-and-policies\/medical-misinformation-policy\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><span> followed suit, with users facing punishment of various forms for posting what Twitter defines as \u201charmful misinformation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span> member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, YouTube announced that they would be expanding their \u201cmedical misinformation policies\u201d with new guidelines relating to the subject of vaccines.\u201cCrafting policy around medical misinformation comes charged with inherent &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}