Misinformation can have harmful effects on everyone, especially when the world is fighting off a pandemic. YouTube has been working to stop the spread of misinformation around COVID-19 and its vaccines, but today the platform has announced a sweeping ban on all anti-vaccine content that spreads misinformation. Announced on the YouTube Blog this morning, YouTube […]
YouTube bans anti-vaccine videos in expansion of medical misinformation policies — 9to5Google
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Politics and business affairs.
Reblog: YouTube Cracks Down on Anti-Vaccine Misinformation, Bans Major Accounts — NBC10 Philadelphia
YouTube announced a total ban Wednesday on vaccine misinformation and the termination of the accounts of several prominent anti-vaccine influencers, including Joseph Mercola and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., citing “the need to remove egregious harmful content.”
YouTube Cracks Down on Anti-Vaccine Misinformation, Bans Major Accounts — NBC10 Philadelphia
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While vaccination rates are worryingly low in developing nations, it does nevertheless seem the horse has bolted somewhat with YouTube announcing a ban on misinformation.
Doing this much earlier could have saved lives.
Reblog: COP26 — Peter Cameron’s Blog
If I could send a message to the world leaders who will soon assemble in Glasgow, it would be, in the words of a St Andrews honorary graduate: What’ll you do now, my blue-eyed son?What’ll you do now, my darling young one? You have been around the world, seen and heard the evidence (the scientific […]
COP26 — Peter Cameron’s Blog
Reblog: Looking at G7, developing nations say “no more excuses” at the COP26 climate summit — Sustain
In June 2021, G7 summit came up with climate solutions that did not satisfy many. In July 2021, developing nations proposed a five-point plan, comprising mitigation, adaptation, loss and damage, finance and implementation. In October 2021, both rich and poor countries attend the COP26 summit. There, this plan would be adopted by the UK, no-one knows.
Looking at G7, developing nations say “no more excuses” at the COP26 climate summit — Sustain
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