NEW YORK (AP) – YouTube’s determination to curb election misinformation is extending to disputes over the results.
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The Google-owned service has started removing content uploaded from December 9th onward if it alleges that “widespread fraud or errors” altered the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election. States have certified the results, YouTube said, and December 8th was the safe harbor deadline for the election — Joe Biden is the President-elect as far as the government is concerned, and the video site is acting accordingly.
The company is matching this by updating its election fact check panels with a link to the Office of the Federal Register page confirming Biden’s win. There will still be a link to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s page debunking false election integrity claims.
YouTube told Engadget it would rely on its information panels to challenge claims in content posted before December 9th. In its blog post detailing the latest moves, YouTube said it already forbade content claiming widespread fraud in previous US presidential elections and allowed “controversial views” on vote counting while the tallies were still in progress.
The company further claimed that its anti-misinformation efforts during the election were effective. It banned over 8,000 channels and “thousands” of videos for “harmful and misleading” claims since September, with more than 77 percent of videos pulled before they had 100 views. Fact check panels have activated over 200,000 times since the November 3rd election, YouTube added.
The policy won’t please those insisting the election was fraudulent. President Trump in particular is known for retaliating against internet giants that fact check his claims, including for election results. However, YouTube clearly feels it has a solid defense — it’s pointing to official information it doesn’t expect to change by the January 20th inauguration.
Yet the fascistic democrats party shills have never and will never remove a single video that disputed the 2016 or 2018 elections or that promoted the russian collusion hoax, youtube is now just a propagandist mouthpiece for the democrat party.
So now, the USA has its own ministry of truth in the form of google, facebook and twitter.
until 2015 google’s motto was “don’t be evil”
after that it was changed to “do the right thing”
the left hates the terms “good” and “evil” because they are absolutes. The left wants to weave its narrative in terms of relative truths (aka the current truth). Included in it is something called moral relativism, this is what enabled the left to come up with the term “the cycle of violence and retaliation” with respect to the Israel’s war on terror.
For the left, the suicide bomber perhaps did the “wrong thing” but not an evil thing, not at all, if one takes time to understand his noble motives.
The dems and media hate America hate freedom hate the Constitution
Joe not my president he’s a cheater.
U tUBE WILL BE ANOTHE FACIST TOOL
This makes no sense. I can go on Youtube and claim aliens abducted Donald Trump and replaced him with a clone and that would not be taken down.
Does that mean that all the hilarious videos of Delusional Donald, Inept Rudy, Jenna Ellis and Lying McEnamy will disappear forever? Can they be saved for viewing in the Trump Presidential Library where his tweets will be housed in perpetuity?