The platform said in a blog post that it will stop removing “content that advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections.”
YouTube on Friday said it will no longer remove content featuring false claims that the 2020 US presidential election was stolen, reversing a policy instituted two years ago amid a wave of misinformation about the election.
The announcement comes in the run-up to the 2024 US presidential election and at a time when former President Donald Trump, the current frontrunner in the Republican primary, continues to make baseless claims about the previous election. Tech companies have in recent years faced pressure to combat election misinformation, especially following the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, which was fueled by baseless claims about election fraud.
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