YouTube has formally declared that it will remove content that encourages viewers to forego seeking professional medical treatment for cancer or that promotes cancer treatments that have been shown to be harmful or ineffective and that it will organise the current medical misinformation guidelines into three categories: prevention, treatment, and denial.

The Google-owned video player also declared that it would remove any content that deviates from recommendations made by medical authorities regarding the safety and effectiveness of authorised vaccines, as well as the prevention and spread of particular illnesses.

For example, a video claiming garlic cures cancer or takes vitamin C instead of radiation therapy would be banned, according to YouTube. In addition, the firm is releasing a playlist of interesting, instructive cancer-related videos from a variety of reliable sources.

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This includes material that urges using unproven treatments rather than seeking medical help for specific problems, such as caesium chloride as a cancer treatment, and material that advocates using dangerous substances to avoid sickness.

“These regulations will apply to specific health conditions, treatments, and drugs whose content differs from that of local health authorities or the World Health Organisation (WHO),” said Dr Garth Graham, Director and Global Head of Healthcare and Public Health Partnerships.

“We will remove content that denies the reality of certain medical illnesses. This includes stuff that denies individuals died as a result of COVID-19,” said Matt Halprin, VP and Global Head of Trust and Safety.

YouTube Health Content: When Will Discouraging Content Be Removed?

YouTube will start eliminating videos on Tuesday that promote cancer treatments that have been shown to be hazardous or unsuccessful or that discourage users from obtaining competent medical treatment. This process will pick up speed in the ensuing weeks.

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This includes material that suggests unproven therapies as a substitute for recommended therapy or as a guarantee of a cure, as well as therapies that have been expressly labelled dangerous by regulatory bodies.