Medscape August 16, 2023
YouTube is cracking down on medical misinformation, particularly as it relates to cancer treatments, according to an August 15 blog post.
“Moving forward, YouTube will streamline dozens of our existing medical misinformation guidelines to fall under three categories ― Prevention, Treatment, and Denial. These policies will apply to specific health conditions, treatments, and substances where content contradicts local health authorities or the World Health Organization (WHO),” Garth Graham, MD, director and global head of healthcare and public health partnerships at YouTube, and Matt Halrpin, vice president and global head of trust and safety at YouTube, wrote in the post.
The new framework will focus on public health risk, publicly available guidance from global health authorities, and whether the source of...
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