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@misk@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago

YouTube starts mass takedowns of videos promoting ‘harmful or ineffective’ cancer cures

www.theverge.com

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YouTube starts mass takedowns of videos promoting ‘harmful or ineffective’ cancer cures

www.theverge.com

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It’s attempting to streamline its health moderation policies.
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    While that would be great, in reality because of YouTube’s recommendations, the ones most likely to watch this crap are the ones already drinking the kool-aid and thus upvoting.

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      How time passes. This was not the case when down-votes were there. It used to be easy to identify when videos were full of shit, even with lots of views.

      This might help others. It’s crowd-sourced and uses averages, but for what it “feels” like, it seems pretty accurate:

      https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/return-youtube-dislikes/

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