Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ YouTube begins verifying videos by UK doctors to tackle health misinformation

Stephen Downes

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Google steps into the gap Twitter left vacant. "YouTube has launched a verification system for UK-based doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to help Britons dodge medical misinformation online... UK-based users accounted for more than two billion video views of clips on health conditions in 2021." How long before it matters less where your degree came from and what it is that it does that you're 'YouTube Certified'?

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