'YouTube has allowed some peddlers of disinformation about the coronavirus to earn money from advertising, according to a Tech Transparency Project investigation, despite its promise to limit the ability to creators who produce quality videos about the pandemic.
TTP found advertising on several YouTube videos promoting questionable coronavirus treatments, like home remedies, meditative music, and potentially unsafe levels of over-the-counter supplements like vitamin C. The advertisers on these dubious videos included President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, as well as Facebook, Liberty Mutual Insurance, and streaming startup Quibi.
The findings show that Google-owned YouTube has provided economic incentives for people to create and distribute false and misleading information about the pandemic on its platform, which has virtually unrivaled reach around the globe. YouTube removed most of the videos in question after a reporter from The Guardian, who had been given access to the findings by TTP, shared them with YouTube for comment.'
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