LexRank Summarization
- "We have strict policies that govern what videos we allow ads to appear on, and videos that promote anti-vaccination content are a violation of those policies," a YouTube spokeswoman said in a statement.
- Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California, wrote an open letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai urging him to fix the problem of anti-vax content on the search giant's platforms.
- "There is strong evidence to suggest that at least part of the source of this trend is the degree to which medically inaccurate information about vaccines surfaces on the websites many Americans get their information, among them YouTube and Google search," Schiff wrote.
TextRank Summarization
- YouTube said Friday it's removing ads that appear on video channels featuring anti-vaccination content.
- The move comes after some marketers pulled ads from the platform because they didn't know they were appearing with videos that discourage vaccinations.
- BuzzFeed, which first inquired about the anti-vaccination videos with YouTube, earlier reported the news.