YouTube on Thursday said it will no longer allow misinformation related to abortion on its platform, including false claims about the safety of the procedure and potentially unsafe instructions about how to self-induce an abortion.
to prevent searches for abortion clinics from returning misleading results and ads that direct users to facilities that oppose the procedure.
Under the new, global misinformation policy, YouTube will remove content that promotes or provides instructions for "unsafe or alternative" abortion methods that are not supported by health authorities. It will also remove misinformation related to the safety of abortion, such as the false claim that abortions have a high risk of causing infertility.
YouTube will also start attaching an information panel to all abortion-related content and search results to point users to credible information from health authorities, such as the US National Library of Medicine. As with many social media policies, however, the challenge isn't introducing it but enforcing it. YouTube said its enforcement systems around the new abortion misinformation policy will ramp up in the coming weeks and months.
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