What is the worst Coronavirus conspiracy you've heard? Most of the time, these conspiracies were made out just for laughter. But some think they are real. Due to this, Google has announced on Friday, July 17, there will be no COVID-19 conspiracy ads on the platform to make sure that all info people get from the net is mostly accurate. Does it mean 'no more COVID-19 unbelievable hoax drive'? 

25% of people believe in hoax COVID-19 news 

Have you ever heard about the unbelievable origins of COVID-19? Like for example, reports said that 5G tech released the COVID-19 that infects people, even adding assumptions that the Novel Coronavirus is just the flu? Reports also said that the virus is a bioweapon from China. All of these claims were not true-- or aren't based on any facts. But people still believe them. 

It turns out that 25% of people online believe or endorse ridiculous COVID-19 conspiracies from different sites. 

That is the problem that Google wants to erase. The Verge reported on July 17 about Google's plan to finally demonetized all advertisements leading to COVID-19 conspiracies. The banning process will start on Aug. 18. 

As reported on Bloomberg, there is a $19 million industry in the conspiracy ad revenues in the fake COVID-19 news, which was the reason why the company thinks that the search engine is now exposed to more numbers of fake news every day. 

To clarify, since the pandemic started, Google did not promote any COVID-19 fake news on its site (or what they assumed to be). In fact, the search engine already demonetizes false health claims-- which is more general-speaking.

But starting on Aug. 18, a more specific rule explaining no COVID-19 conspiracy ads will be effective by the company. As explained, the new policy will be following the original rule in Google about "authoritative scientific consensus."

"We are putting additional safeguards in place by expanding our harmful health claims policies for both publishers and advertisers to include dangerous content about a health crisis that contradicts scientific consensus," a spokesperson told The Verge.


Youtube already conducts the same process

When there's the internet, there is a possibility of people sharing fake news all the time, especially now that COVID-19 is a worldwide problem for everyone.

Google announced in April that there will be an estimated amount of $6.5 million to curb the spread of COVID-19 fake news on the site. Its affiliate, Youtube, was already implementing the said rule since a huge population of conspiracies are usually released on the video-sharing site. 

Even Facebook and Twitter do their jobs to make sure people only see reliable facts about the virus. How far can this movement go?

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