When Dr. Garth Graham thinks about health misinformation on social media platforms, he envisions a garden.<\/p>\n
No matter how bountiful or verdant that garden is, even the head of YouTube\u2019s global health division admits it\u2019s often in need of tending.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow do you weed and pull out the bad information?\u201d he questioned.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut also\u2026how do you plant the seeds and make sure people have access to good information as well as high quality information?\u201d<\/p>\n
For social media companies, these have become perennial questions that have only grown in importance as the number of platforms multiplied and people began spending increasing amounts of time online.<\/p>\n
Now, it\u2019s not uncommon to spot misinformation with almost every scroll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When Dr. Garth Graham thinks about health misinformation on social media platforms, he envisions a garden. No matter how bountiful or verdant that garden is, even…<\/p>\n