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- May 12, 2019
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I know someone mentioned being banned earlier for tagging Coronavirus on YouTube. Well, we may now know the reason. Tech companies are officially fighting n-covid.
Check this:
The company will also remove “false claims and conspiracy theories that have been flagged by leading global health organizations,” and will block people from running ads that “try to exploit the situation,” such as by falsely advertising a cure. These are also good steps — although, as ever, policy is what you actually enforce. We’ll see!
Also, in a great act of chilvary:
In https://www.facebook.com/4/posts/10111615249124441/?d=n, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company would grant unlimited free ad credits to the World Health Organization to promote accurate information about the crisis.
And as for the big G:
Google took a step to make life easier for those who are required to work or study from home, https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/3/21163744/google-microsoft-free-access-coronavirus-google-hangouts-meet-teams.
Google-owned YouTube, historically the most conspiracy-friendly of the big platforms, has also added a link to https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019 to the top of search results. In the early days of the crisis, BuzzFeed found popular conspiracy videos about the coronavirus on YouTube — https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/the-most-popular-youtube-videos-about-the-coronavirus-are, where one “explainer” with a false explanation of the disease’s origin racked up 13 million views before YouTube removed it. But in the United States, conspiracy videos about the disease https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/for-the-last-year-youtube-has-been-cracking-down-on-hoaxes.
So you see, not all heroes wear cape. Sometimes they are Multi billion dollar companies out to prove they care about something other than invading your privacy. Yay!!!
Full link to sauce: https://www.theverge.com/interface/2020/3/5/21164683/covid-19-tech-response-facebook-google-twitter-microsoft-youtube-whatsapp
Check this:
The company will also remove “false claims and conspiracy theories that have been flagged by leading global health organizations,” and will block people from running ads that “try to exploit the situation,” such as by falsely advertising a cure. These are also good steps — although, as ever, policy is what you actually enforce. We’ll see!
Also, in a great act of chilvary:
In https://www.facebook.com/4/posts/10111615249124441/?d=n, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company would grant unlimited free ad credits to the World Health Organization to promote accurate information about the crisis.
And as for the big G:
Google took a step to make life easier for those who are required to work or study from home, https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/3/21163744/google-microsoft-free-access-coronavirus-google-hangouts-meet-teams.
Google-owned YouTube, historically the most conspiracy-friendly of the big platforms, has also added a link to https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019 to the top of search results. In the early days of the crisis, BuzzFeed found popular conspiracy videos about the coronavirus on YouTube — https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/the-most-popular-youtube-videos-about-the-coronavirus-are, where one “explainer” with a false explanation of the disease’s origin racked up 13 million views before YouTube removed it. But in the United States, conspiracy videos about the disease https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/for-the-last-year-youtube-has-been-cracking-down-on-hoaxes.
So you see, not all heroes wear cape. Sometimes they are Multi billion dollar companies out to prove they care about something other than invading your privacy. Yay!!!
Full link to sauce: https://www.theverge.com/interface/2020/3/5/21164683/covid-19-tech-response-facebook-google-twitter-microsoft-youtube-whatsapp