YouTube will stop removing content that falsely claims the 2020 election or other past U.S. presidential elections were marred by “widespread fraud, errors or glitches,” the platform announced.
a month after the 2020 election that it would start removing new posts that falsely claimed widespread voter fraud or errors changed the outcome.YouTube says it will stop removing content that falsely claims the 2020 election and other past U.S. presidential elections were marred by widespread fraud, errors or glitches
The change comes as YouTube and other major social media companies have come under fire for not doing more to combat election misinformation was an attempt to protect the ability to “openly debate political ideas, even those that are controversial or based on disproven assumptions.” This could prove difficult to enforce, said John Wihbey, an associate professor at Northeastern University who studies social media and misinformation.
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