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• YouTube Seeks To Crack Down On COVID-19 Vaccine Conspiracies In Fact-Check Panels
• YouTube Bringing More Human Mods Back To Work After Coronavirus-Related Pause

  YouTube is bringing back more human moderators to police content, after sending many of its teams home beginning in March with the outset of worldwide quarantining measures to counteract the spread of COVID-19.

  
• YouTube Says Watch-Time On ‘Borderline’ Content By Non-Subscribers Has Dropped 70% This Year

  In a corporate blog post today, YouTube shared an update on its work to reduce the spread of content that it terms “borderline” and also likens to “harmful misinformation” -- videos that aren’t punishable per its Community Guidelines but brush up close to the line, such as conspiracy theories.

  
• YouTube Continues Conspiracy Crackdown With Fact-Checking Cards On Search Results

  YouTube is taking further action to fight the spread of conspiracy theories. A new feature -- which is currently being piloted in India for search queries in both English and Hindi -- will showcase fact-checking cards when people search for sensitive topics, BuzzFeed reports.