Vimeo, a video hosting platform that markets itself as an alternative to YouTube, has updated its terms of service to ban 'fake news' and 'conspiracy theories.'
Allum BokhariVimeo, a video hosting platform that markets itself as an alternative to YouTube, has updated its terms of service to ban “fake news” and “conspiracy theories” that creates “a serious risk of material harm to a person, group, or the general public.”
The video sharing platform’s previous terms were also fairly restrictive, banning any content that “contains hateful or discriminatory speech,” supports “hate groups,” contains false information about “vaccination safety,” “false or misleading information about voting,” or “contains conspiracy-related content where the underlying conspiracy theory makes claims that… suggest that a real-world tragedy did not occur.
The tightening of Vimeo’s terms of service comes after the platform attracted attention, along with the free speech friendly video platforms
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