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  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    YouTube’s loaded with disinformation about everything. Especially egregious are the awful ads YouTube runs about scammy health cures and devices.

    • Kalkaline @leminal.spaceEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Which is why we need downvote buttons by default for those videos. People say it’s unnecessary, but you at least have to let the upvotes go to zero if there are that many downvotes.

      • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
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        1 year ago

        We need laws that make it illegal to disinform people for profit.

        • silverbax@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          There are, and have been, but Republicans constantly work to repeal them, calling it ‘deregulation’.

          Businesses would sell you cyanide and call it a weight-loss miracle cure if the laws didn’t prevent it.