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YouTube to introduce “health panels” showing info from “trusted” organizations for health searches
Coronavirus will be the first ailment to get a health panel.
YouTube finally allows all creators to monetize coronavirus content but there are some big caveats
YouTube has been allowing a “range of news partners” to monetize the topic for almost a month.
The mounting human cost of China’s coronavirus censorship
Censorship costs lives.
UK government actively working with social media to remove coronavirus “fake news and harmful content”
Big tech’s crackdown on coronavirus content has led to the censorship of many who question the measures that are being put in place.
Instagram to suppress coronavirus related content from explore tab
The platform will also hide content not approved by fact-checkers.
Department of Justice orders the shut down of a coronavirus vaccine scam website
This is the first government-ordered takedown of a coronavirus-related site.
Twitch viewership doubles as more people “work” from home
Twitch is a major winner of the outbreak.
YouTube introduces large coronavirus health alerts to users, even to those who haven’t searched for the topic
YouTube is the latest of many big tech platforms to push coronavirus content from health organizations.
eBay censors and deletes listings of t-shirts about coronavirus
Apparently, it’s against their “Disaster and Tragedy Policy,”
Facebook to redirect searches about vaccines to CDC and WHO information
The pop-out window also appears whenever a user visits vaccine-related Facebook groups or pages, or even when a user taps on vaccine-related hashtags on Instagram.
Pinterest alters vaccine search results to say “Vaccines work” and “Vaccines are safe and effective”
Pinterest has announced that it will start displaying information from public health organizations whenever users search for vaccines and vaccine-related terms.
MailChimp has banned anti-vax newsletters
Many who have been censored on other platforms have turned to newsletters to get their message out. MailChimp wants to stop that.