Youtube has already removed 30,000 Vaccine confusion videos. Google owned video streaming and recording giant was completely focused on drastically cutting down COVID-19 misinformation.
A YouTube spokesperson came out and confirmed that Youtube doesn't take COVID misinformation easily. The company has taken some serious actions on their website portal against the videos which contradict the facts about vaccines from the World Health Organization (WHO) or health authorities such as the NHS. Early last year, Youtube removed disinformation on the vaccine in an effort to crackdown on efforts to dislodge the jabs.It added that over 800,000 videos for coronavirus misinformation had been deleted in the last year.
This number includes more than just vaccinations, but also broader "medically unsubstantiated" statements about the virus. Compared to the social media giants in the same room, Youtube seems to be meeting COVID disinformation head-on.The videos that have been taken include misleading reports that the vaccine causes death, induces infertility, or includes a hidden microchip that will be inserted in recipients. Throughout the initial stages of the disease outbreak, YouTube was host to a number of unsubstantiated claims about the disease and even fabricated rumours of non-existent "cures."
Amid its restriction on such content, identifying and removing it continues a battle for YouTube and a coalition of other social media networks.In recent times, Social Media Sites, including Youtube, have always been at the centre of a controversy around how much they have allowed falsehoods regarding vaccines to proliferate on their platforms. In fact, YouTube has been ahead of the game whenever it comes to implementing policies to address this. But the minority of dedicated activists who distribute misleading anti-vaccine material online are using extremely complex techniques that pose problems for video platforms such as YouTube.