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June 5, 2020updated 07 Nov 2023 5:56am

Youtube accused of ‘actively promoting misinformation’ as MPs grill social media giants on Covid-19 infodemic

By William Turvill

A senior UK politician has accused Youtube of “actively promoting misinformation or dangerous information to people” through videos promoted on their homepages on the website.

Yvette Cooper MP, chair of Parliament’s Home Affairs Committee, challenged the video platform over recommendations she received for fake news content (video below).

Speaking at a Parliamentary hearing with Leslie Miller, Youtube’s vice president of government affairs and public policy, Cooper told how her searches for “David Icke”, the British conspiracy theorist, on the site had led to subsequent homepage recommendations for conspiracy theories relating to 5G technology and anti-vaccination messaging.

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