Starting Tuesday, YouTube will begin to massively remove “all content that promotes harmful or ineffective cancer treatments,” the platform announced in a blog post.
“When cancer patients and their loved ones are faced with a diagnosis, they often turn to online information to research symptoms and learn about treatment pathways,” the platform says. “Our mission is to make sure that when they turn to YouTube, they can easily find high-quality content from trusted health sources.”
“Garlic cures cancer”
Thereafter, the countless pseudoscience videos will disappear “in the coming weeks” to protect Internet users. Therefore, these are promotions of false cures against cancer, “treatments that health authorities consider harmful”, but also “content that discourages Internet users from seeking medical treatment from a professional”.
The Google subsidiary also notes that “there is a stable consensus on safe cancer treatments from local and global health authorities.”
There are many videos on YouTube to promote alternative methods to conventional cancer treatments. In France, the naturopath Thierry Casasnovas, very present on YouTube, is in the crosshairs of justice for “illegal practice of medicine” and “breach of trust” by promoting vegetable juices to prevent or even cure cancer.
Source: BFM TV
