Google’s video platform has announced that it will now remove content containing misleading and erroneous information about abortion. An information panel from the health authorities will also appear below the videos.
YouTube continues its campaign to fight misinformation, this time with a new hot topic: abortion. The video platform owned by Google has announced on Twitter on July 21 that she was going to delete content offering dangerous instructions on abortion methods. Misinformation about abortion will also be erased. YouTube indicates that this decision is only an extension of its policy on health topics and the fight against medical misinformation.
” We prioritize connecting people with content from authoritative sources on health topics, and we continually revise our policies and products based on real-world events. can we read in a tweet. The platform says it will start taking down these videos today and will ramp up its efforts in the coming weeks.
An information panel in addition to the video
Additionally, YouTube will add an information panel below abortion-related content and above related search results. This box includes a background paragraph and information from local and global health authorities, the service said.
YouTube is taking this action after the United States Supreme Court, a major legal institution, overturned Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed the right to abortion nationwide. Several federal states immediately banned abortion after the judges’ decision last June.
This isn’t the first time that YouTube has taken steps to control the information circulating on a hot topic. The platform banned misinformation about Covid-19 from the start of the pandemic. By August 2021, she had taken down more than a million videos containing dangerous statements about the virus. The following month, YouTube focused on filtering out content containing misleading and conspiratorial information about vaccines.
More recently, the Google subsidiary has taken on Russian government-sponsored channels, banning propaganda videos from Moscow. The tech giant, long criticized for the lack of control over its platform and the abuses that this could cause, pursues a firm policy against the proliferation of false information on the web.
