Posted on 06/19/2023 6:41:03 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
YouTube said Monday that it had removed a video of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaking with podcast host Jordan Peterson for spreading what the company said was vaccine misinformation.
The decision is the latest challenge for Kennedy as he seeks to find support for a Democratic presidential run after years as an anti-vaccine crusader. The video was removed amid a broader tug-of-war online between vaccine conspiracy theorists and prominent doctors.
YouTube’s policies against hosting false medical information are long-standing.
"We removed a video from the Jordan Peterson channel for violating YouTube’s general vaccine misinformation policy, which prohibits content that alleges that vaccines cause chronic side effects, outside of rare side effects that are recognized by health authorities," YouTube said Monday in a statement.
Peterson, a right-wing Canadian pundit and psychologist known for his attacks on feminism and racial diversity, recorded the video as a podcast for The Daily Wire, a conservative media outlet.
Kennedy and Peterson criticized YouTube on Sunday for removing the 95-minute video. They accused the company of interfering with a presidential election campaign.
"Should social media platforms censor presidential candidates?" Kennedy asked on Twitter, where the video remains online.
It was not the first time Kennedy has lost access to social media accounts for spreading health misinformation. Last year, Facebook and Instagram cited the same reason when they suspended Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine group that Kennedy founded.
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Saw him interviewed regarding the corona virus and he seemed to know what he was talking about.
100%
That is the correct question. Missed where they were crowned the deciders of truth.
YouTube’s policies against hosting false medical information are long-standing. scum
In the case of “free choice” the antivaxxer would be safe. However politicians, administrators, doctors who enforce a mandate where there is NO FREE CHOICE, send those people to Hell !!
To this day I don’t believe the vax has ever been proven safe & effective. The mandate was wrong/criminal and those enforcing it need to pay.
“How could youtube possibly know what is or is not misinformation?”
I’d like for the ‘posting’ sites put posts on a controversial subject into a group of posts representing all sides of the controversy.
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That is because YouTube is a publisher, exercising editorial functions while pretending to be a "platform."
As a publisher, YouTube lies with regularity and strong arms as and when it will.
One man’s controversy is another man’s religion.
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