YouTube executive boasts about deleting over 1 million videos for “COVID misinformation”

In this week’s senate hearing, a YouTube executive boasted about how the platform had removed more than a million videos under its “COVID misinformation policy.”

YouTube’s Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Policy Leslie Miller testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. 

In the hearing, titled “Protecting Kids Online: Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube,” the senators asked questions on what the platforms were doing to protect kids online.