YouTube will stop removing content that falsely claims the 2020 election or other past US presidential elections were marred by “widespread fraud, errors or glitches,” the platform announced on Friday.
that the updated policy was an attempt to protect the ability to “openly debate political ideas, even those that are controversial or based on disproven assumptions”.
“In the current environment, we find that while removing this content does curb some misinformation, it could also have the unintended effect of curtailing political speech without meaningfully reducing the risk of violence or other real-world harm,” the blog post said. The updated policy, which goes into effect immediately, won’t stop YouTube from taking down content that tries to deceive voters in the upcoming 2024 election, or other future races in the US and abroad.This could prove difficult to enforce, said John Wihbey, an associate professor at Northeastern University who studies social media and misinformation.’ side to say, ’wait a minute, let’s just claim that voting just generally is not worth it. And 2020 is our example,” he said.
The left-leaning media watchdog group Media Matters said the policy change is not a surprise, as it was one of the “last major social media platforms” to keep the policy in place. “YouTube and the other platforms that preceded it in weakening their election misinformation policies, like Facebook, have made it clear that one attempted insurrection wasn’t enough. They’re setting the stage for an encore,” said its vice president Julie Millican in a statement.In April, the broadcaster pay Dominion Voting Systems $US787.
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