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YouTube spokesperson: “Specifically, we don’t allow content that denies the existence of Covid-19 or that encourages people to use hydroxychloroquine or ivermec

YouTube spokesperson: “Specifically, we don’t allow content that denies the existence of Covid-19 or that encourages people to use hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin to treat or prevent the virus. We do allow for videos that have sufficient countervailing context, which the violative videos did not provide.” https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/aug/01/sky-news-australia-banned-from-youtube-for-seven-days-over-covid-misinformation https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/aug/01/sky-news-austr... YouTube is part of the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), which is commited to censor anything that would impede the vaccine rollout, including any early treatments. https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2020/trusted-news-initiative-vaccine-disinformation https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2020/trusted-news-initiative...

rvz 5y ago
'Trusted News Initiative' 'which is committed to censor anything that would impede the vaccine rollout, including any early treatments.' Also including censoring the official CDC.gov guidelines because somehow that is 'False Information' according to Facebook. [0] I don't know about you but I think this initiative is going to give big tech companies the green light to mass sweep and ban anything that moves or crawls against any criticism of their guidelines. This is just the beginning, with lots of users getting their accounts banned without reason. Oh dear. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27999720 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27999720