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The cement hardens around Vaccine Holiness, yet the Guardian can no longer find a scare quote

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YouTube to remove misinformation videos about all vaccines

YouTube is to remove videos that spread misinformation about all vaccines, as it steps up a crackdown on harmful content posted during the coronavirus pandemic.

From Wednesday, the video streaming site, which has already banned Covid jab falsehoods, will take down content that contains misinformation such as claiming any approved vaccine is dangerous, causes chronic health defects or does not reduce spread of disease.

Under previous guidelines, the platform demoted – effectively hiding from view – videos that spread misinformation about non-Covid vaccines or promoted vaccine hesitancy.

Last year, YouTube implemented a ban on Covid vaccine misinformation videos, which has led to 130,000 pieces of content being taken down since then. YouTube, which is owned by Google, has removed a total of 1m videos for spreading general Covid falsehoods since the pandemic broke out.

Matt Halprin, the global head of trust and safety at YouTube, said vaccine misinformation was a global problem and had spilled over from the spreading of falsehoods about Covid jabs.

“Vaccine misinformation appears globally, it appears in all countries and cultures,” he said.

Halprin added that falsehoods around the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, which has been wrongly attributed to causing autism, were an example of the misinformation YouTube will target.

“There is still a lot of challenges around MMR and people arguing whether that causes autism. And as we know, the science is very stable that vaccines do not cause autism,” he said.

Halprin said the ban would also apply, for instance, to content that claims vaccines cause cancer, infertility or contain microchips, the latter having gained prominence as a falsehood about Covid jabs.

In 2019, a major study affirmed that there was no link between autism and MMR, in the wake of a pre-Covid upsurge in vaccine scepticism, fanned by social media and anti-government populism. A paper in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, which is published by the American College of Physicians, found “no support for the hypothesis of increased risk for autism after MMR vaccination in a nationwide unselected population of Danish children”.

Halprin said the new guidelines will still allow personal testimonies on taking vaccines, discussion of vaccine policies and references to historical failures in vaccine programmes, as long as the content does not include broad misinformation or promote vaccine hesitancy. As well as applying to falsehoods about vaccines for specific diseases such as hepatitis, the guidelines will apply to general statements about vaccines that are deemed to be misleading.

On Wednesday, a search under the terms “MMR vaccine autism” produced a page of results containing rebuttals of any link between the vaccine and autism, including a video entitled “Vaccines and autism: how the myth started”. However, the page also includes a TV interview with the actor Robert De Niro in which he states that Vaxxed, a documentary directed by Andrew Wakefield – one of the key figures in promoting discredited links between MMR and autism – is a film that “people should see”. De Niro was being interviewed in 2016 after his Tribeca film festival pulled a screening of Vaxxed in the wake of a backlash against the film.

YouTube’s move follows a decision by Facebook last year to remove false claims about Covid vaccines once they have been debunked by public health experts.

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Most of this is a mirror image of treatment in the US and/or the UK. You just need to change round what drugs you think are ‘unproven’.
Faithfully reproduced by the Guardian photocopiers
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Brazil hospital chain accused of hiding Covid deaths and giving unproven drugs

Last month a group of whistleblowing doctors handed a 10,000-page dossier to investigators containing a series of incendiary allegations against the SĂŁo Paulo-based firm that caters to senior citizens.

The dossier contained claims that elderly patients had been used as “human guinea pigs” for the testing of unproven Covid “remedies” without full consent being given.

On Tuesday, the lawyer representing those whistleblowers, Bruna Morato, appeared before the Covid investigation in BrasĂ­lia and made further allegations.

They included claims that:

  • Prevent Senior doctors were pressured into giving patients a cocktail of ineffective drugs, including the antimalarial hydroxychloroquine and the anti-parasitic ivermectin, in what was referred to as the “Covid kit”.

  • The decision to push hydroxychloroquine as a supposedly effective Covid treatment was partly designed to help government ideologues who allegedly wanted to use such information to convince Brazilians there was no need to stay at home during the pandemic. “The economy couldn’t stop so they [the government] needed to find a way of giving hope to people who were leaving their homes. This hope had a name: hydroxychloroquine,” Morato alleged.

  • The use of such unproven medicines was also part of “a cost-reduction strategy” on the part of Prevent Senior. “It is much cheaper for a health provider to make available certain medication available rather than actually admitting those patients,” Morato claimed.

  • Coronavirus deaths had been concealed in order not to compromise the results of Prevent Senior tests allegedly designed to show “Covid kit” drugs were effective against the disease. “This is fraud,” said the inquiry’s vice-president, Randolfe Rodrigues.

  • Prevent Senior doctors had supposedly received instructions to reduce the oxygen supply to seriously ill Covid patients who had been in intensive care for more than 10 or 14 days. “The expression I heard repeated on numerous occasions was: ‘Deaths free up beds too,’” Morto said.

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Goodbye FukcYouTube. Into the same toxic-waste bin as the Fraudian. Good riddance, and no loss, especially as the alternatives are coming up like rockets.

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Oh well. The Youtube spokesperson was right on at least one subject!

For the avoidance of doubt, I’m referring to the “misinformation” like Ivermectin is a horse medicine, Hydroxychloroquine kills Covid patients, etc. :sweat_smile:

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A starting point when it comes to investigating vaccination would be to ask yourself why, when supposedly the pharmaceuticals have our best interests and health at heart, have neither they nor the state ever done any studies into the long term health outcomes of the vaccinated versus the unvaccinated? That they haven’t should be a red flag from the off.

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There are plenty of other places to find the antidote to Covid crap! You have only got to look around. YouTube virtue signalling its support for Govt control. What a surprise!!

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#7

But
 The vaccines come straight from God :pray:. As Kathy Hochul (actual Governor of New York State) points out

Hosanna, amen

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#8

And that’s not satire? Apparently not. (I really had to check.) Bloody hell! The world really does get madder every day.

I don’t suppose she also said that people should shun the Russian vaccine, because it comes from Satan?

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#9

Amen brother.

:wink:

No, not satire. Either pure cynicism, or utter madness


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“Either pure cynicism, or utter madness
”

The latter more likely. It seems she’s actually quite a good sort, just prone to overcollecting irrational beliefs.
At least the authority she appeals to is unchallengeable :wink:

She’s an improvement on her predecessor for sure. When she started saying Go seek out those poor unenlightened unvaccinated, I thought she was going to add “and give them what for” but she seems to be preaching love. Just a little problem with her sources
 :slightly_smiling_face:

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#11

It’s a bit windy up that mountain. Could that have been 
hydroxychloroquine


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Never was and never will accept the Covid non vaccine.

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Hi folks, only one guy in the Commons seems to be battling for the vaccine injured and this is what he gets from the despeakable pratt in charge of the session:

https://t.co/XFmFTAx38B
more here on TCW

cheers

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Good effort by Chope. You have to take issue, though, with his swallowing of half the lie about the poison-stabs. He buys the line that, whilst thousands have indeed been killed, maimed or injured by them, millions have “benefitted from them”. Oh really? How exactly? As well as being deadly dangerous, therapeutically, they’re something close to complete flops. And we haven’t got the full story yet, still several years down the line, about just how much damage they cause.

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#15

The desk price in our hallowed seat of democray. Gotta be paid

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Hi @RhisiartGwilym,

Maybe he’s thinking of all those with interests in all the jab scams:

  • the gics obviously, plus family & friends and investor pack rats feeding off them
  • the politicians enabling the scams plus family & friends ( remember almost all mps and peers had conflicts of interest in the last big NHS asset strip act, so that would be repeated here)
  • the conmen stripping the treasury with a little help from their friends in power to sell us snake oil, useless and dangerous equipment and all the consultancy fees under the sun
 plus family & friends
  • the shareholders, steakholders, directors , senior managers partners, charity heads of every conceivable medical organisation whose assets rose exponentially over the last 2 years plus family & friends
  • the lawyers and accountants drawing up schemes to double the benefits for all of the above and keep taxes to the minimum plus family & friends

-now multiply the lot by almost every country in the world and you have the millions who benefitted! ( All these will have been jabbed using the placebos from the “safe lots”! )

But of course you’re right about his Nelsonian senses.

cheers

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#17

Isn’t the Speaker supposed to be impartial? Although since parliament started being televised they’ve all fancied themselves as vaudeville acts.

Sticking with politics for a second I was amazed to get a flyer through the door from the SDP at the weekend. They still exist. One of the pledges said: “Covid, pro vaccine but anti mandate.” I might spoil a paper with this in mind at the next run around.

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Thats some quality maths right there @CJ1 A definite +10 if we had such vulgar buttons on 5filters