YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice
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Re: YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice
#2Is this the beginning of the end for YouTube?
As someone who deeply hates how much fake news have been spreading in the past few years, I still find this very worrying, especially since the WHO has been very inconsistent with their messaging during this pandemic [1] and sometimes plain wrong [2].
[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/who-chie...
Re: YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice
#3TheirTube
Re: YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice
#4Does that include recognizing Taiwan?
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#5"Mrs Wojcicki added YouTube had seen a 75% increase in demand for news from "authoritative" sources."
Who ??? who in its right mind is watching youtube for an "authoritative" source ??
Re: YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice
#6Y̶o̶u̶t̶u̶b̶e̶ China
Fixed it
Re: YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice
#7The fact that they are backing WHO here as a means of curation and censorship instead of a less political org like the CDC, is pretty concerning. We already know WHO has stated objective falsehoods multiple times that impact the health of the world negatively.
Re: YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice
#8The actual title of the article is "Coronavirus: YouTube bans 'medically unsubstantiated' content." While the article does state that content that contradicts WHO advice would violate this policy, the implication behind the current title, that the policy is exclusively focused on the WHO, is incorrect.
Re: YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice
#9“Anything that would go against World Health Organization recommendations would be a violation of our policy.”
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"WHO continues to advise against the application of travel or trade restrictions to countries experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks."
https://www.who.int/news-room/articles-detail/updated-who-re...
Re: YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice
#10"Mrs Wojcicki added YouTube had seen a 75% increase in demand for news from "authoritative" sources." Who ??? who in its right mind is watching youtube for an "authoritative" source ??
Maybe I'm imagining it, but I've noticed that it's difficult to find user-generated current-events content on Youtube. The search results are dominated, artificially it feels, by clips from the major broadcasters and news agencies. User-created content is pushed down. I guess that's what preferring "authoritative" sources looks like, and I wonder if people are just "choosing" ("demanding") what the search results have been rigged to give them.