YouTube is removing videos questioning the efficacy or safety of government-approved vaccines. – Alternative Health

“Content which falsely claims that approved vaccines are dangerous and cause chronic health effects, which asserts that vaccines do not reduce disease transmission or contracting diseases, or which contains incorrect information about the substances contained in vaccines will be deleted ” , explained the company in its communicated.

And to specify as an example: “this includes content that falsely claims that approved vaccines cause autism, cancer or infertility, or that substances in vaccines can track who receives them .”

On the other hand, YouTube announces that will not be deleted “content on vaccination policies, new vaccine trials and historical successes or failures of vaccines” , just like personal testimonials on vaccination as long as they respect the platform’s regulations.

The Google-owned site claims to have deleted more than 130,000 videos in the past year that promoted information not validated by health authorities about Covid-19 vaccines, but now wants to extend its policy to all vaccines currently marketed.

The American newspaper New York Times reports that the YouTube channels of many personalities known for their virulent criticism of vaccines or vaccine policies have already been deleted from the platform, such as the American lawyer Robert Francis Kennedy Jr or his association Children’s Health Defense.

The social network Twitter, also belonging to Google, seems determined to follow suit. Indeed, the newspaper Le Parisien report this day that “several highly followed anti-vaccine Twitter accounts have been suspended by the social network in recent days and they will no longer be able to peddle their sometimes conspiratorial or factually erroneous messages to their tens of thousands of subscribers. We can quote, in particular @le_general_off ( more than 60,000 “followers”) and @L_infirmier_ (nearly 55,000) “

Last July, US President Joe Biden said social media was partly responsible for the misinformation about vaccines and called on them to do more on the subject. He seems to have been heard!