YouTube to Advance its Crack-Down on Vaccine “Misinformation”

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YouTube says it will soon remove any content that argues the Covid vaccine can cause serious side-effects and is unsafe to use. Matt Halprin, the Global Head of Trust and Safety at the Google-owned company, is alarmed by the presence of “vaccine misinformation” across the world. For example, vaccine scepticism relating to concerns over infertility will be struck from the platform. Guardian has the story.

From Wednesday, the video streaming site, which has already banned Covid jab falsehoods, will take down content that claims any approved vaccine is dangerous and causes chronic health defects. Under previous guidelines, the platform demoted – effectively hiding from view – videos that spread misinformation about non-Covid vaccines or promoted vaccine hesitancy.

Last year, YouTube implemented a ban on Covid vaccine misinformation videos, which has led to 130,000 pieces of content being taken down since then. YouTube, which is owned by Google, has removed a total of 1m videos for spreading general Covid falsehoods since the pandemic broke out.

Matt Halprin… said vaccine misinformation was a global problem and had spilled over from the spreading of falsehoods about Covid jabs.

“Vaccine misinformation appears globally, it appears in all countries and cultures,” he said.

Halprin added that falsehoods around the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, which has been wrongly attributed to causing autism, were an example of the misinformation YouTube will target.

“There is still a lot of challenges around MMR and people arguing whether that causes autism. And as we know, the science is very stable that vaccines do not cause autism,” he said.

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Stephensceptic
Stephensceptic
4 years ago

So we have private firms that are omnipotent enough to define “the truth”.

Sounds like they have ambition to be an equivalent to the Roman Catholic Church of the Late Middle Ages.

What an arrogant and evil bunch of characters.

lorrinet
lorrinet
4 years ago

MMR? My little niece’s life changed dramatically and irrevocably the day after the MMR. A happy, lively, tottering 13-month-old became a screaming mess who was unable to lift her body or use any of her limbs. At the hospital a health-visitor exclaimed “what on earth has happened to this child? She was perfectly all right a few days ago!”

But that was the last and only comment; everybody clammed up after that. Several years later the NHS made her long sturdy leather boots to strengthen her legs to enable to hold her body weight so she could stand up. After years of treatment, physio etc., she’s almost perfectly mobile.

But this sweet child is forever damaged; she is in a remedial class, what we used to call ‘backward’. That she is vaccine-damaged there can be no doubt, but it became another of the growing list of things we mustn’t talk about.

If we don’t stop these monsters, damaged humanity will become the normal state, lives unsustainable without buckets full of drugs and Big Pharma the benevolent, philanthropic leader who controls all. The nightmare is not around the corner; it’s already here, it slipped in while our attention was diverted and… Read more »

AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
4 years ago
Reply to  lorrinet

That’s a horrendous story and there are probably many thousands more. My heart goes out to you, Lorrinet. I hope your niece gets to live a fulfilling life as much as she can. We are truly up against a monster. There has to be a way to defeat it.

follow
follow
4 years ago

If they say mRna SPIKE PROTEINS work, then that’s that.
The vast group wouldn’t listen anyway. Being part of a vast group run by powerful people is important to these people.
Facts mean nothing, can be trashed.
I wonder why we’d have to learn more on ‘ain’t it awful if it goes nowhere and if their ears are closed?
Maybe it would be time to move on.
Alternatively, videos debunking what will be on YouTube likely helps us. And how to do that.

ebygum
ebygum
4 years ago
Mr_Human
Mr_Human
4 years ago

Trust the experts folks

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Jane G
Jane G
4 years ago

I suppose this means that Mike Graham will stop speaking to Mike Yardley (I think that’s his name) on Talk Radio about the terrible consequences he suffered after taking the vaccine.
I sense this has already happened as the spate of calls taken relaying similar testimony has dried up.

No doubt they are looking to being taken down from YouTube if too much is made of it.
(And as MG has obviously been jabbed in order to be able to fly to the USA, he’s lost interest in the topic; many of the jabbed appear to acquire a form of deafness, probably as a defensive mechanism).

Hester
Hester
4 years ago

Great to hear that a sharing service that allows people to watch ISIS at work, people taking a dump etc has decided that it is medically qualified to censor open debate on the vaccines, I assume that the VAERS and the yellow card system will be banned from being shown too. By a bunch of jumped up computer nerds who believe because they invented an App it makes them qualified to tell the rest of us, including Nobel prize winning scientists what to think and say. I wonder who they tied that little deal up with

Anonymous
Anonymous
4 years ago

What will they do when they’ve cancelled all but themselves? Continue to cancel or stop?

RTSC
RTSC
4 years ago

Someone confident of their case isn’t afraid to argue it.

The Globalists are scared.

timsk
timsk
4 years ago

“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.” 
For me, this George Orwell quote says everything anyone needs to know regarding big tech’s censorship of the truth misinformation.

Elenesse
Elenesse
4 years ago

What’s that quote by Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones? “When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”

Censor away. All they are doing is proving that they fear the truth coming to light.

loopDloop
loopDloop
4 years ago

“There is still a lot of challenges around MMR and people arguing whether that causes autism. And as we know, the science is very stable that vaccines do not cause autism,” he said.

Not so fast.

Try reading this then come back and talk about your ‘stable science’:

How to end the Autism Epidemic by J.B. Handley

The full pathway has now been exposed. It’s the aluminium adjuvants.

chris c
chris c
4 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

It’s noticeable that the separate vaccines have a much better safety profile than the combined jab. Do they not have aluminium then?

Earlier vaccines had mercury as an adjuvant, also no bueno.

Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
4 years ago

I’ve been looking at brandnewtube this year. Sometimes there are gems to be found. Vernon Coleman I liked at first, but it’s just more of the same now, and I liked the Rex Colt videos – but, again, once he’s talked about what the Covid scam is all about, what more is there to add?

Problem the brandnewtube is that most of the comments below the videos are nonsensical, or spam (“I make $30,000 from working at home”) and this reflects badly on the owner of brandnewtube who should, I think, get rid of the rubbish contents.
Many of the videos on bnt are just re-hashed copies of copies over and over again, many are badly made 11-second clips of nothing very much, and there’s a whole bunch of nutty religious ‘Mark of the Beast’ tosh. I’m not one for censorship but I think in the case of bnt a lot of ‘pruning’ is needed to make it look less tawdry.
Also the video ‘slider’ doesn’t really work very well at all.

I do agree that Google has become too big – and too nosey. Now they claim, after some years of my presence (Google Photos / Youtube videos I’ve… Read more »

rayc
rayc
4 years ago

I think it’s time they renamed YouTube to GoogleTube to match their policies and content. GovTube would be also ok.

rayc
rayc
4 years ago

Hmm, looks like they will have to block all health authorities that provide statistics about those adverse reactions then.

jingleballix
jingleballix
4 years ago

‘Censorship’ eh? Why can’t ordinary people look at the facts and make their own interpretation?

For example, NOBODY is really dying of C-19 in Australia (or NZ)……but those numbers are changing. Why? Possibly, because medicine that people don’t need is being put into their bodies.

A bit of basic data analysis of numbers is handy.

Data I refer to is from here.

Info on Australia’s vaccination programme is here.

Over TWO winters, Australia has seen 1,278 deaths……..[NZ 27 after months with no change……..HK 213 an increase of 1 in about 8 months].

The ‘worst’ day of the pandemic in Australia was 3rd September 2020, when 22 people were taken – or at least had their demise subscribed to C-19.

In 2020, 909 Australians died of C-19.

In 2021, from 1st January to 30th June, 1 Australian died of C-19.

From 1st July, 368 Australians have been added to the list.

It was in June/July 2021 that the jabbing programme accelerated – particularly that of the second doses.

Since then, certainly ‘cases’ have absolutely rocketed, and after a short lull, the C-19 deaths began to occur again…….second jabs appear to be responsible for a rise in cases and… Read more »

brachiopod
brachiopod
4 years ago

“My heart is broken. 💔
I now have had confirmation of two U.K. teenage deaths post Pfizer. 

A sixth form student in Solihull received the jab last week, suffered blood clots, a cardiac arrest and died on Monday. 

A 17 year old girl from Braintree died in her sleep with no underlying health conditions just 24 hours after the jab. 

I knew this day would come. I did everything I could to stop it and we all must continue to do everything we can. The best we can hope for now is to limit the deaths these weapons will cause 💔

Our children deserve so much better. 💔”

On telegram, No idea if this is true, but if it is……

jingleballix
jingleballix
4 years ago
Reply to  brachiopod

If only Toby Young would make some basic enquiries.

In reality, he appears to be a bit more of a mate of Boris and Gove than the people of Britain.

Oscarone
Oscarone
4 years ago
Reply to  brachiopod

A 17 year old girl has died in France some days after getting the Pfizer jab. Here’s the sad story. Sofia Benharira: 17-Year-Old Student Dies 7 Days After Receiving The Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine, Family Seeks Answers : The COVID World

Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Oscarone

Also Alderbrook School, Solihull, Birmingham

https://twitter.com/Mandy90375141/status/1442877019499294737

https://insideeko.com/adam-ali-death-obituary/

Although no evidence it was the vaccine wotdunnit.

BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

By now I’ve read several of these reports of young people dying suddenly of basically nothing. It’s maddening that the press won’t ask the one question everyone is thinking: Was this person vaccinated? Is it possible the vaccination caused this death? The press won’t do its job – asking questions and obtaining relevant information – so really are these people really journalists? I don’t think so.

How many healthy 17-year-olds simply die in their sleep? If you are healthy and die at 17, you typically died in an accident, a drug overdose, suicide or had cancer. Most of these more common causes of death have been ruled out, which leaves …

jennyw
jennyw
4 years ago
Reply to  brachiopod

Investigation: Deaths among Teenagers have increased by 47% in the UK since they started getting the Covid-19 Vaccine according to official ONS data
https://theexpose.uk/2021/09/30/deaths-among-teenagers-have-increased-by-47-percent-since-covid-vaccination-began/

19-Year-Old Ukrainian Student Gets Pfizer Vaccine Behind his Family’s Back, Dies Seven Hours Later
https://theexpose.uk/2021/09/29/19-year-old-ukrainian-student-gets-pfizer-vaccine-behind-his-familys-back-dies-seven-hours-later/

chris c
chris c
4 years ago
Reply to  brachiopod

The policeman who murdered Sarah Everard got life imprisonment (and rightly so).

Meanwhile over 1600 have been murdered by the “vaccines” and now as predicted children too.

The perpetartors will get knighthoods and peerages.

jingleballix
jingleballix
4 years ago

So……if you were in any doubt about whether or not the Covid issue was a joint government-corporate stitch-up……

…..look no further than this extension of this egregious and fatuous censorship.

Do they think we won’t notice?

martinbritnell83
martinbritnell83
4 years ago

Will they be blocking the videos of those who have suffered severe adverse reaction from the poison too?

ebygum
ebygum
4 years ago

THERE IS NO SUCH THING! THAT IS VACCINE MISINFORMATION, YOU ARE BANNED!

ebygum
ebygum
4 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

Nope…still gives me the willys to write that, even in jest! We are now in the time of the New Nazis.

Perkins
Perkins
4 years ago

As a thought, for people who get a serious adverse reaction to the vaccine, why would they not sue Google as with this release it is clear they are consciously stopping them from getting potential warnings which may have influenced their decision?
I am not I’m law so not sure that would stand up but if you cannot go after the manufacturer due to government liability waivers may as well go after YouTube! Isn’t that the American way of law chuck lawsuits at everyone who can be linked at all and see what sticks?

huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Perkins

Fair point.

Annie
Annie
4 years ago

Scared, aren’t tney?
They are not the only source of information, only a leading source of lies.

PatrickF
PatrickF
4 years ago

Dear YouTube,
I hope you and your loved ones survive the experimental gene therapy.

Annie
Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  PatrickF

That’s more charity than they deserve.

PatrickF
PatrickF
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

True. I ‘d just woken from a dream where Keir Starmer was an anti Vax leader of the Labour Party, and then I woke up.

rtaylor
4 years ago

Odysee, Rumble and telegram (which now offers live streaming) gain every time the deep state become more desperate.

For those wishing to host their own video’s on their own server – Peertube is an open piece of software. I’m running one myself on a virtual server ($5 a month job). This allows me to embed video on my blog.

HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
4 years ago

Matt Halprin… said vaccine misinformation was a global problem and had spilled over from the spreading of falsehoods about Covid jabs.

Hark, at them, they’re so threatened! What about the global problem of vaccine harm, injury and death, the highest of any vaccine programme ever??? Or the fact that these things DON’T stop transmission or infection??? This evil is being revealed to us more and more in all its vile colours. Go too far and even the normies will wake up – can’t have that now, can we?

ebygum
ebygum
4 years ago
Reply to  HelenaHancart

THAT IS CLEARLY VACCINE MISINFORMATION YOU ARE BANNED!

ebygum
ebygum
4 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

As a normal person…just writing that gives me the shivers…these people have taken the money and lost their entire souls.

ChaunceyTinker
ChaunceyTinker
4 years ago
Reply to  HelenaHancart

Lots of horror stories being reported at this website (restricted to medical professionals apparently, this is no “anti-vaxxer” site it’s owned by webmd):

“How concerned are you about adverse events related to the vaccines?”
https://www.medscape.com/sites/public/covid-19/vaccine-insights/how-concerned-are-you-about-vaccine-related-adverse-events

ChaunceyTinker
ChaunceyTinker
4 years ago
Reply to  ChaunceyTinker

Actually it looks as if non-medical people may be able to post there, so I have some doubt, unfortunately I can’t now delete my comment. That’s not to say these reports aren’t mostly genuine however, and from the wording it does seem as if they are mostly reports from people with at least some medical knowledge.

Noumenon
Noumenon
4 years ago

“Bbbbbbbuuuuttttt MMR!!!”

Nice bit of whataboutery.

Squire Western
Squire Western
4 years ago

High time a rival platform was set up.

Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
4 years ago

These people took The jab and just look at how it improved their mental health:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1443216567118991368

https://twitter.com/i/status/1442968341048532994

crisisgarden
crisisgarden
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

That’s made my afternoon for all the wrong reasons!

HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Anyone remember a little known horror film from the 80s called “The Stuff”, and how the marketeers in it ran huge advertising campaigns to get people to take “the Stuff”? All this kind of reminds me of that!

rayc
rayc
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

I like it, trying to shove it down people’s arms in most ridiculous ways in combination with overreaching censorship will cause the most adverse reaction of rejecting all future pharma bs. It’s the same principle as with the crazy antivaxxers, all you need to do is let them scream loud and poke fun at them in order to gain public support for vaccination. Just in reverse.

huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago

I have abandoned youtube for exactly this.

If youtube wish to act as publishers pay the bloody taxes owed.

Utterly disgusting.

Cristi.Neagu
Cristi.Neagu
4 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Nah. Why abandon it? Just get an adblocker.

crisisgarden
crisisgarden
4 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

I barely ever use it, having been a huge advocate for years. Full of ads anyway and sinister government sponsored messages it can fuck off!

NonCompliant
NonCompliant
4 years ago

It’s beyond me at this point why people aren’t mirroring all of their content to BitChute, Odysee & Rumble, providing links and encouraging the migration.

Dark Horse make a point of doing a short YouTube clip, like a trailer for the main show, which tells everyone where the full video is posted, eg on Odysee. A link can be found in the description and Bob’s your Uncle !

rayc
rayc
4 years ago
Reply to  NonCompliant

I’m pretty sure linking to other hosting platforms is against YouTube’s ToS.

Londo Mollari
Londo Mollari
4 years ago

Youtube is likely to get totally banned very soon from Russia because it deleted its two RT channels in Germany. I suspect other countries are likely to follow – and good riddance too.

https://www.rt.com/russia/536133-zero-tolerance-youtube-censorship-rt/

huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Londo Mollari

Let’s hope so.

crisisgarden
crisisgarden
4 years ago
Reply to  Londo Mollari

And there’s a fuckload of Republicans in the US who want to see the end of Google, Twitter and Facebook. They’ve made some very significant enemies!

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

Alphabet’s (agency) “advertising” tracking platform looks ever so like a spin off from internet surveillance.

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