YouTube Removes 1 Million Videos Showing Covid-19 Misinformation

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YouTube removed 1 million videos for displaying harmful Covid-19 misinformation since 2020. Photo/doc

MENLO PARK – YouTube removed 1 million videos for displaying harmful Covid-19 misinformation since 2020.

YouTube Chief Product Officer Neal Mahon shared the statistics in a blog post outlining how the company is taking the approach.

“Misinformation has moved from marginal to mainstream,” Mahon said Engadget, Sunday (29/8/2021).

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“No longer confined to the closed world of Holocaust deniers or the truth 9-11, it now extends to every aspect of society, sometimes tearing communities apart at great speed.”

However, the executives YouTube also argues that “bad content” only accounts for a small part of the overall content on the video-sharing platform.

The bad content that exists only represents a small part of the billions of videos on YouTube. He said around 0.16 to 0.18 percent of the total views were content that violated their policies.

Mahon added that YouTube also removes nearly 10 million videos every quarter, most of which don’t even reach 10 views.

Facebook also recently issued a similar report about Covid-19 misinformation on its platform. This was revealed in the Community Standards Enforcement Report for the second quarter of 2021.

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