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YouTube starts mass takedowns of videos promoting ‘harmful or ineffective’ cancer cures
(www.theverge.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2023
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When my mom had cancer, I swear every relative and distant acquaintance came out of the woodwork trying to sell some kind of nonsense. It was already a devastating time, but on top of that it was insulting being forced to hear about all these delusional snake oil cures and conspiracy theories.
I sympathize. I have a severe nerve disorder and I get quack recommendations constantly. Even worse, I did a YouTube video about it and there were so many quack comments.
Ditto me and my autoimmune disorder