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Exhibit 1147

Managing harmful vaccine content on YouTube (YouTube Official Blog)

Exhibit 1147 · Company statement

Managing harmful vaccine content on YouTube (YouTube Official Blog)

Since last year, we’ve removed over 130,000 videos for violating our COVID-19 vaccine policies.

YouTube expands its medical-misinformation policy to cover approved vaccines generally and states it has removed over 130,000 videos for violating its COVID-19 vaccine policies 'since last year', after building ten COVID-19 policies 'at the onset' of the pandemic with health authorities.

Source
YouTube (Alphabet Inc.)
Date
29 September 2021
Quoted from
Post of 29 September 2021, paragraph 4
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/managing-harmful-vaccine-content-youtube/
Accessed
2026-11-10
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Finding INF-4.5
Primary record Meta (26 August 2024) and Alphabet (23 September 2025) each wrote to the House Judiciary Committee that senior Biden administration officials pressed them in 2021 over COVID-19 content, and each wrote that the company made its own decisions on removal and enforcement.