YouTube has removed 1 million videos for dangerous COVID-19 misinformation

YouTube has removed 1 million videos for information on Misin Covid-19 information that was dangerous since February 2020, according to the Youtal Mahon YouTube Chief Product Officer.

Mahon shares statistics in blog posts that describe how the company approaches. wrong information on the platform. “The wrong information has moved from marginal to the mainstream,” he wrote. “It is no longer contained in the world of closed Holocaust denial or 9-11 People, now stretches to every aspect of the community, sometimes tearing society at a blazing speed.”

At the same time, Youtube executives believe that “bad content” only contributes a small portion of Youtube content as a whole. “Poor content only represents a small percentage of billions of videos on YouTube (around 0.16-.18% of the total view turns out content that violates our policy),” Mahon wrote. He added that YouTube removed almost 10 million quarters, “the majority did not even reach 10 views.”

Facebook recently made similar arguments about content on the platform. Social networking published a report last week that claimed that the most popular posts were memes and other non-political content. And, faced with criticism of the handling of Covid-19 and misinformation vaccine, the company has argued that vaccine information errors are not representatives of the type of content seen by most users.

Both Facebook and YouTube have been under special supervision for their policies around health information errors during a pandemic. Both platforms have more than one billion users, which means that even a small portion of content can have a remote range effect. And both platforms have so far refused to reveal details about how the vaccine and the health of the health spread or how many users face it. Mahon also said that removing the wrong information was only one aspect of the company’s approach. YouTube is also working on “installing information from trusted sources and reducing the spread of videos with information wrong.”