YouTube announced that it will start removing false claims about cancer treatments as part of an ongoing effort to build out its medical misinformation policy.
Henceforth, YouTube intends to prohibit content that promotes cancer treatments proven to be harmful or ineffective, or content that discourages viewers from seeking professional medical treatment. This includes content that promotes unproven treatments in place of approved care or as a guaranteed cure, and treatments that have been specifically deemed harmful by health authorities, such as the misleading claim that patients should take vitamin C instead of radiation therapy.
Although YouTube has struggled to contain videos with medical misinformation, especially since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, however in the last two years, it broadened its ban on vaccine misinformation, while also removing videos about unsafe abortion methods.
