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…  “YouTube has previously taken welcome steps to protect its users from anti-vaccine and conspiracy theories,” Avaaz argued, “but has not acted with equal force against broader misinformation and disinformation content, including climate misinformation.”

The group called on YouTube to implement new policies to prevent the further spread of climate misinformation on its platform. It said the site should:

 •  Include climate misinformation in its “borderline content” policy, which limits the algorithmic distribution of videos that do not reach the bar required to fully remove them from the site.

 •  Demonetise misinformation, “ensuring such content does not include advertising and is not financially incentivised. YouTube should start immediately with the option for advertisers to exclude their ads from videos with climate misinformation.”

 •  Work with independent fact-checkers to inform users who have seen or interacted with verifiably false or misleading information.

 •  Provide transparency to researchers by releasing data showing how many views are driven to misinformation by its own recommendation algorithms.  …