YouTube is taking expanding access to its products in order to provide its British users with accurate health information. Medical professionals in the U.K. can now apply if they want their channels to be listed as authoritative sources.
U.K.-based doctors, nurses, psychologists, and health organizations will be promoted by the same tools that highlight credible healthcare providers in the U.S. The most notable of those features is a shelf filled with “health sources,” which appears in search results related to specific medical conditions. The videos appearing on those shelves are identified through panels that discuss the featured creators’ credentials.
By pushing to provide the most accurate medical information possible, YouTube is attempting to counteract the rampant amount of misleading health advice on its platform. During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, for example, YouTube became a haven for vaccine truthers.
In the United States, the response...
U.K.-based doctors, nurses, psychologists, and health organizations will be promoted by the same tools that highlight credible healthcare providers in the U.S. The most notable of those features is a shelf filled with “health sources,” which appears in search results related to specific medical conditions. The videos appearing on those shelves are identified through panels that discuss the featured creators’ credentials.
By pushing to provide the most accurate medical information possible, YouTube is attempting to counteract the rampant amount of misleading health advice on its platform. During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, for example, YouTube became a haven for vaccine truthers.
In the United States, the response...
- 6/16/2023
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
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