YouTube will start adding fact-check labels and re-order its ranking system for videos about health with help from a nonprofit group just days after President Joe Biden tore into social media for “killing people" by spreading falsehoods about vaccines. YouTube will also start displaying select videos more prominently on the site when people search for health terms, similar to how it now treats certain news topics. “These principles for health sources are the first of its kind," Garth Graham, director of health care for YouTube, wrote in a blog post. Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar said Sunday that misinformation on social media about vaccines adds urgency to her call to change liability standards for what is published on their platforms. The surgeon general’s report didn’t mention YouTube by name, but it cited a recent academic study that examined vaccine information on YouTube.

Source: Mint July 19, 2021 16:52 UTC