YouTube removes 1 million videos carrying 'dangerous misinformation' on COVID-19

Videos that violate the vaccine policy, according to YouTube`s rules, are those that contradict expert consensus on the vaccines from health authorities or the World Health Organisation (WHO).

New Delhi: Google-owned YouTube has removed 1 million videos related to dangerous COVID-19 misinformation, like false cures or claims of a hoax, since February 2020. According to YouTube`s Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan, if we only focus on what we remove, we`re missing the massive amount of content that people actually see. "Bad content represents only a tiny percentage of the billions of videos on YouTube (about .16-.18 percent of total views turn out to be content that violates our policies)," he said in a blog post on Wednesday.