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YouTube to stop removing content making false claims on past elections

Published 06/02/2023, 02:52 PM
Updated 06/02/2023, 03:21 PM
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A 3D-printed YouTube icon is seen in front of a displayed YouTube logo in this illustration taken October 25, 2017. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Ilustration/File Photo

(Reuters) - Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Inc's YouTube said on Friday that the platform would stop removing content that might have spread false claims related to U.S. presidential elections in 2020 and before.

The new set of updates is part of YouTube's elections misinformation policy that will go into effect immediately.

"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," YouTube said in a blog post.

The platform also said the rest of its policies against hate speech, harassment and incitement to violence would continue to apply to all user content, including elections.

The proliferation of disinformation has raised questions about how social media platforms enforce their policies against misleading content about elections.

Other social media platforms like Twitter and Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META)'s Facebook have also seen a spike in disinformation related to elections.

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Assertions that the 2020 election was stolen are valid despite being labeled “false” as no extensive studies can prove otherwise. The documentary, “2000 Mules” still provides a plausible theory for how the election results could have been manipulated despite claims it has been “debunked”. Such “debunking” claims are theoretically in nature only and shouldn’t be taken as fact. Governments regularly use data analysis authoritatively to convict people of crimes which is similar to how “2000 Mules” used data to support their theory. It would require multiple peer-reviewed extensive, exhaustive, and time consuming multi-year investigations which have not been performed yet (to date) to disprove the “2000 Mules” theory. It is this dichotomy that undermines credibility of news outlets and lends credence to the term “fake news”.
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