Recently, Youtube updated its guideline on health and medical-related content. This update was launched with concerns for the future of medical misinformation policies. That includes removing cancer misinformation too.
Moreover, Youtube will remove your content if it breached one of these 3 guidelines. These guidelines are the prevention misinformation, treatment misinformation and denial misinformation. For instance, videos that contradict health authority guidance on the prevention, transmission of specific health conditions, and the safety and efficacy of approved vaccines will be removed under the prevention misinformation guideline. That includes content that promotes a harmful substance for disease prevention.
In addition, Youtube will remove content that contradicts health authority guidance on treatments for specific health conditions under treatment misinformation. That includes promoting specific harmful substances or practices. For example, content that promotes unproven substances as medicines (caesium chloride as a treatment for cancer).
On top of that, Youtube will remove your content if it denies the existence of specific health conditions. This guideline was probably created with concerns over the increasing number of videos denying deaths from COVID-19. Given how this pandemic has affected the world globally, we could understand the reasoning behind this guideline.
Plus, Youtube recognised that it has become a major source of reference for people regarding diseases. Hence, these guidelines are implemented so that Youtube could become a source for high-quality content from credible health sources. Especially when it comes to combatting cancer misinformation.
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