YouTube will ban any videos that claim commonly used vaccines approved by health authorities are ineffective or dangerous, moving beyond COVID-19 to include content targeting vaccines such as measles and chickenpox.
YouTube will block all anti-vaccine content, the video-sharing platform said in a blog post on Wednesday.
The Google-owned site will block content that alleges vaccines cause chronic health effects or contains misinformation on the substances in vaccines.
The company previously blocked videos that made those claims about coronavirus vaccines, but not ones for other vaccines such as those for measles or chickenpox.
YouTube is also banning prominent anti-vaccine activists — including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Joseph Mercola — taking down several channels, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing YouTube's Vice President Of Global Trust and Safety, Matt Halprin.
