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Posted: 2023-06-03 01:42:42

“I don’t know how you disentangle rhetoric that both refers to past wrongs and to forward possibilities. The content moderation team, which is going to try to do this, is going to tie themselves in knots trying to figure out exactly where that line is.”

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The announcement comes after YouTube and other major social media companies, including Twitter and the Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram, have come under fire in recent years for not doing more to combat the firehose of election misinformation and disinformation that spreads on their platforms.

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.

Lies about the 2020 election have proven costly for another company.

In April, the broadcaster pay Dominion Voting Systems $US787.5 million ($1.17 billion) to avert a trial in the voting-machine company’s lawsuit that would have exposed how the TV network promoted lies about the 2020 US presidential election.

AP with reporter

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