YouTube to remove videos claiming mass fraud changed election results
It's a policy shift that could put the tech giant at odds with President Donald Trump.
YouTube said Wednesday it will begin removing any videos that falsely claim widespread voting fraud changed the outcome of the 2020 presidential race now that the deadline for states to resolve disputes over the results has passed.
It's a policy shift that could put the tech giant at odds with President Donald Trump and his GOP allies in the remaining days of his administration, but one that will be welcomed by Democrats who have called for more aggressive action.
What’s changing: The Google-owned video-sharing platform announced in a blog post that it will begin outright removing content published Wednesday or later that “misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election.”
The company in recent months has taken steps to label election-related posts and direct users to “authoritative news sources” regarding the outcome, but stopped short of outright banning unsubstantiated claims of a rigged election.
YouTube said it would begin enforcing the policy now that the national safe harbor deadline for states to conclude any disputes over the election results passed on Tuesday. “We will begin enforcing this policy today, and will ramp up in the weeks to come,” the company said.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/1...results-443925
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I would normally say it's unnecessary, most people do know when they're being straight out lied to, but apparently there's a minority of re s that still need training wheels, tbh.