YouTube's Role in Vaccine Misinformation

When it comes to vaccines,

vaccine hesitancy, videos that cause a public health risk,

where do you want to see YouTube do better?

Well, first of all, we've taken the,

we've taken responsibility very seriously.

It's been one of my top priorities, and with regard to COVID,

and with regard to vaccines, that has been a top priority for us, and we have,

we have a number of different ways that we address that.

So first of all, we want to make sure that if there's information that

violates our policies, we came up with 10 different policies around COVID.

Then if that's a violation of policies,

then that's something that we'll remove.

We removed over a million videos associated with COVID.

Have you talked to the Biden administration at all about vaccine hesitancy or

vaccine misinformation?

Well, we did an event actually with the Biden administration,

including President Biden himself, with a number of creators,

Fauci as well. I wonder if there's anything that you see in, you know,

the way that anti vaxxers behave on the platform,

if there are any data or insights

there that could be helpful to people understanding where they're coming from?

I mean, we try to,

we try to understand what are the different ways that we can break through.

So we talked

about in this campaign that we did about getting back to the things that you love.

So we, what we really tried to do was get not just from the experts,

but also people that were not experts,

but who were explaining like, why did they take the vaccine?

Why was that relevant for them? And what was their thought process?