YouTube Cracks Down on Fake Cancer Cures – Gizmodo

YouTube announced it’s taking on the miracle cures, bogus disease prevention tips, and other health myths that litter the video-sharing site with a new assault on medical misinformation. The effort starts with a mass take-down of videos about “harmful or ineffective” cancer cures, according to a Tuesday press release from the company. It’s a move that’s sure to mire YouTube and its parent company Google deeper in the culture war surrounding Big Tech’s work to fight lies about vaccines and COVID-19. How Conspiracy Theories and Disinformation Spiral Out of Control on the Internet | TechModo“In the years since we began our efforts to make YouTube a destination for high-quality health content, we’ve learned critical lessons about developing Community Guidelines in line with local and global health authority guidance on topics that pose serious real-world risks,” YouTube said in a blog post. “Our goal is to ensure that when it comes to areas of well-studied scientific consensus, YouTube is not a platform for distributing information that could harm people.”The policy starts with a crackdown on content that promotes unproven or harmful cancer treatments or discourages people from seeking professional medical attention. YouTube used videos that say “garlic cures cancer” or “take
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