YouTube To Block All Anti-Vaccine Content

YouTube has announced that it will block all anti-vaccine content from the video-sharing platform.

The company has moved beyond its initial ban on false information about the COVID-19 vaccines to include content on misinformation about other approved vaccines.

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YouTube revealed this in a blog post on Wednesday.

Examples of content that will not be allowed on YouTube include claims that COVID-19 vaccines cause infertility or that the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine can cause autism.

The video-sharing platform will also ban channels associated with prominent anti-vaccine activists including Robert F. Kennedy and Joseph Mercola, a YouTube spokesperson revealed.

The decision comes as YouTube, Twitter, and other tech giants have been criticized for not doing enough to stop the spread of false health information on their respective sites.

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