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Quebec’s best-known conspiracy theorist, Alexis Cossette-Trudel, lost another media platform on Thursday when YouTube shut down his account, which had more than 120,000 subscribers. YouTube said it was removing Cossette-Trudel’s channel, Radio-Québec, for “repeatedly violating our community …
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YouTube today joined social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter in taking more direct action to prohibit the distribution of conspiracy theories like QAnon. The company announced that it is expanding its hate and harassment policies to ban videos “that [target] an individual or group with …
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YouTube is cracking down on videos displaying “harmful conspiracy theories” as social platforms continue to grapple with the spread of misinformation and hate. The Google-owned streaming company will now prohibit content that targets a person or group with “conspiracy theories that have been used …
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YouTube will ban videos that promote QAnon and other conspiracy theories, but only if they target specific people or groups, seeking to crackdown on potentially dangerous misinformation after criticism the service helped these fringe movements expand. The decision comes a week after Facebook Inc. …
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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki speaks during the opening keynote address at the Google I/O 2017 Conference at Shoreline Amphitheater on May 17, 2017 in Mountain View, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Google‘s YouTube is updating its hate speech policy to ban videos that target individuals or …
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Alphabet Inc’s YouTube is working to remove videos from its site that spread misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines. This will include claims that the vaccine will kill people or cause infertility, or that microchips will be implanted in people who receive it. YouTube already removes videos that …
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YouTube announced on Wednesday that it will now be extending current rules about lies, propaganda, and conspiracy theories about the coronavirus pandemic to include misinformation about coronavirus vaccines. Per Reuters, the video giant now says it will prohibit content about coronavirus vaccines …
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Election 2020 Facebook has taken down the Facebook page of the conspiracy theory-driven Advance New Zealand Party, Marc Daalder reports The conspiracy theory-driven Advance New Zealand Party has had its Facebook page taken down by the social media giant just two days before election day. A Facebook …
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Mark Zuckerberg has clearly had enough of being hauled in front of Congress and hectored by a gang of senior citizens and listening to the head of the ACLU slam his company as a vessel for violent hate speech. Because over the past few months, Facebook has done a complete 180 on its position about …
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By Elizabeth Culliford, Paresh Dave 3 Min Read (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s YouTube said on Wednesday it would remove videos from YouTube containing misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, expanding its current rules against falsehoods and conspiracy theories about the pandemic. FILE PHOTO: A …
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