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Popular video sharing social media, YouTube said, all types of content that spreads misinformation about approved COVID vaccine-will be removed from the platform. Besides this, if you claim something false about the vaccination, there is a system to impose a ban. The news media reported on the BBC.

The approved vaccines are dangerous and causing autism, cancer or infertility-videos will be removed from the platform, YouTube authorities said. The new policy also includes closing accounts of campaigners against vaccines.

Top tech firms are hearing criticisms for not doing much to combat health-related fake information on their platforms.

In July of this year, US President Joe Biden complained – misinformation spread on various social media is responsible for people being suspected of getting a COVID vaccine. Biden also called on social media platforms to solve the problem.

Google-owned YouTube said, after banning content spreading misinformation about Covid vaccine, one lakh 30 thousand videos have been removed from the platform since last year.

YouTube said in a blog post – not only false information about Covid vaccines, but also misinformation about other vaccines – such content has also spread on the platform. Youtube will take the same measures if other vaccines, such as ham or hepatitis B vaccines are spread long-term.
‘ We’re improving YouTube’s medical and health-related misinformation policies with new guidelines on conventional vaccinations that local health authorities and WHO approved and ensured safe and effective-said YouTube, ‘ ‘

In addition to this, personal testimony related to vaccination, content related to vaccination policy, new vaccine tests and history-based videos related to vaccination success or failure are not objectionable, YouTube said.
Earlier in February of this year, top social media Facebook announced a similar ban on dealing with fake information about Covid vaccines. But, Facebook has to face challenges to implement the ban.

Except that Twitter the micro blogging and social networking platform announced last March – users who share repeated misinformation about vaccines will be banned from the platform.

Commentators will be warned in advance if any user makes malicious or violent comments on popular micro-blogging site Twitter from now. Twitter authorities said the initiative is to protect every user from harassment and hateful comments on their platform.

The feature is still in test stage on Android and iPhone. Twitter shared an image of how the new feature will work. Continuous replies to some of the current tweets, through regular tweet action bars. In addition, there are buttons for reply, retweet, like and share options, This makes any tweet to comment or retweet.

But if someone makes any negative comment through the new feature, it won’t be seen anymore. Twitter will be deleted and the user who made that comment will also be warned. Twitter said, in this case, the topic of the tweet may be considerable.

Facebook apps shut down again for two hours yesterday Friday. For the second time in a week, social media service has been seen global disruption.
The Downdetector is seen in dotcom, users started to report that Facebook-owned services, such as: Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, were not used on Friday at 1 p.m. If the any digital platforms cannot be used, the users inform the Downdetector dotcom.

After two hours, Facebook gives a message to solve the problem. The social media said that there was a ‘change in configuration’ at the hosting root of the problem. Even if we don’t say much, such things are said during the coordination of technical infrastructure.

After the incident, we apologize on behalf of Facebook, ‘ Those who could not use our products in the last two hours, we sincerely apologize. ‘
With that said, yesterday’s incident has nothing to do with last Monday’s server down. Facebook apps are closed for about six hours on Monday.
Monday’s incident again reminded how dependent we are on one or more apps on Facebook, the US news media The New York Times report said. More than three hundred and a half crore people worldwide use Facebook services regularly. Entrepreneurs and business organizations say they are facing ‘ thousands of dollar s’ losses as they couldn’t sell products via Instagram and Facebook during the server down.

Even though Facebook is more used in the United States, people of many countries including India, Brazil, Philippines depend more on WhatsApp. Communication with relatives, colleagues and customers is disconnected. More than 100 million people worldwide use WhatsApp.

After Monday’s Facebook server down, the company warned, it will take longer to stabilize their services.