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YouTube starts mass takedowns of videos promoting ‘harmful or ineffective’ cancer cures | The platform will also take action against videos that discourage people from seeking professional medical ...::YouTube will remove content about harmful or ineffective cancer treatments or which “discourages viewers from seeking professional medical treatment.”

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


YouTube hopes that this policy framework will be flexible enough to cover a broad range of medical topics, while finding a balance between minimizing harm and allowing debate.

In its blog post, YouTube says it would take action both against treatments that are actively harmful, as well as those that are unproven and are being suggested in place of established alternatives.

YouTube’s updated policies come a little over three years after it banded together with some of the world’s biggest tech platforms to make a shared commitment to fight covid-19 misinformation.

While the major tech platforms stood united in early 2020, their exact approaches to covid-19 misinformation have differed since that initial announcement.

Most notably, Twitter stopped enforcing its covid-19 misinformation policy in late 2022 following its acquisition by Elon Musk.

Meta has also softened its moderation approach recently, rolling back its covid-19 misinformation rules in countries (like the US) where the disease is no longer considered a national emergency.


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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

YouTube hopes that this policy framework will be flexible enough to cover a broad range of medical topics, while finding a balance between minimizing harm and allowing debate.

there's nothing to debate

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd say that claim is debatable

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

if you want to determine efficacy of a treatment, you run a clinical trial, not a debate

[–] BilboBargains 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can we run a clinical trial on that comment?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Reader described experiencing mild discomfort but no visible signs of cancer.