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Google promotes conspiracy theories of coronaviruses, removes ads from pages promoting these theories, and de-monetizes entire sites that frequently violate the policy announced on August 18. CNBC reported this news earlier and noted that it supplements existing articles on monetizing harmful medical information.
A Google spokesman confirmed that the new policy targets pages that are inconsistent with the “autonomous scientific consensus” about the spread of the coronavirus. Google has unencrypted these health claims, but will soon identify something other than the source of the virus, for example, the origin of the virus. This policy does not apply to exposing or reporting the existence of these theories. It also does not apply to non-viral conspiracy theory.
“We include harmful content just as both publishers and advertisers include harmful content, so that both publishers and advertisers include harmful content that is consistent with scientific consensus. By expanding our health claims policy, we are satisfying obscene cefegado,” said a spokesperson. brink..
Google and other large web platforms have struggled with constantly changing information (and misunderstandings) around pandemics. The company easily processed all viruses associated with non-governmental coronaviruses in March, which removed the bank’s editors from democratic organizations. It contains a lot of delicate topics because you are monetizing YouTube videos regardless of pandemic. And, during the product shortage, there was a temporary problem due to some fake masks — a policy book was also adopted.
Currently, it doesn’t matter how much content violates Google’s new rules, or if a particular site doesn’t monetize under it. For the time being, Epoch Times — The pervasive COVID-19 plot — hosting a new Google. It’s been spotlighted and removed, causing controversy in the past, including a conservative site temporary demonite Zero hedge Due to widespread racism in that comment section. Google confirmed last week that it has resumed advertising and moderation changes on the site.
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