YouTube, Following Facebook, Bans Anti-Vaccine Content
YouTube is banning anti-vaccine content from its platform, removing videos from several of the anti-vax movement’s notable figures.
Anti-vaccine influencers like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Joseph Mercola are being faced with channel takedowns following a change in YouTube’s new restrictions on medical misinformation.
The website’s policies explain that claims about vaccines “that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities” or the World Health Organization will not be allowed on the platform, according to Google Support’s YouTube Help.
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