YouTube expands policies to ban all anti vax content

Calum Jaspan

September 30, 2021 10:34

Google-owned streaming giant YouTube has expanded its medical misinformation policies, now banning all misinformation on vaccines generally, beyond just COVID-19 vaccinations.

YouTube said in a blogpost that there has been a steady rise of false claims regarding COVID vaccines “spill over into misinformation about vaccines in general, and we’re now at a point where it’s more important than ever to expand the work we started with COVID-19 to other vaccines”.

While the community guidelines on YouTube already do not allow certain aspects of medical misinformation, the platform said that at the onset of the pandemic, it worked with medical experts to build on its policies, developing ten new policies specifically centred around COVID-19 misinformation.

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Calum Jaspan

Calum Jaspan was news editor at Mumbrella, based in Melbourne. He was also the producer and host of the Mumbrellacast. He left Mumbrella in May 2023.