YouTube has pulled 30,000 videos for making false claims about COVID-19 vaccines

Posted on 11/03/2021 by Engadget

YouTube has pulled 30,000 videos for sharing misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines, Axios reports. Details on the takedowns come six months after the company first updated its policies to address misinformation about the coronavirus vaccines. Pr...

Russia is using online disinformation to trash rival COVID-19 vaccines

Posted on 07/03/2021 by Engadget

Russia's internet disinformation efforts extend well beyond election interference. State Department officials talking to the Wall Street Journal say Russia is running a disinformation campaign using at least four online publications and a host of...

House Democrats ask YouTube to explain extremism policies

Posted on 04/03/2021 by Engadget

House Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee are again pushing YouTube to explain its policies around extremist content. In a letter sent to Google CEO Sundar Pichai Wednesday, the committee leaders said that “incendiary content that indoctri...

Twitter will label tweets with misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines

Posted on 01/03/2021 by Engadget

Twitter has introduced new rules to prevent the spread of misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines. Under the new policy, the company will label tweets with “misleading” information and ban accounts that repeatedly break the rules. Twitter had prev...

TikTok removed almost 350,000 videos for spreading election misinformation

Posted on 24/02/2021 by Engadget

TikTok is offering a new glimpse into just how much misinformation is on its platform. Between July and December of last year, the app removed hundreds of thousands of videos for breaking its rules around misinformation about the 2020 presidential el...

Facebook, Google and Twitter CEOs agree to testify about misinformation

Posted on 18/02/2021 by Engadget

The CEOs of Facebook, Twitter and Google will soon make another appearance in front of Congress. Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey and Sundar Pichai have agreed to testify at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on March 25. The hearing will cove...

Facebook is finally banning vaccine misinformation

Posted on 08/02/2021 by Engadget

Facebook is finally taking a tougher stance on vaccine misinformation. With help from the World Health Organization (WHO), the company has expanded the number of claims it will remove from its platform. You can see the full list on its Help Center, b...

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