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Basically, a version of what the company was saying publicly.

Realizing the moderation had gone too far.

But in talking this over with a few people, I came up with a few reasons why YouTube may have gone down this path, and it seemed to be worth discussing those possibilities: The company seems to be trying to walk a fine line here, which is unclear if it will work. The company insists that its overall election misinfo policies remain in place, and the direct forms of dealing with misinformation like doing things such as trying to trick people into not voting remain in place:Īll of our election misinformation policies remain in place, including those that disallow content aiming to mislead voters about the time, place, means, or eligibility requirements for voting false claims that could materially discourage voting, including those disputing the validity of voting by mail and content that encourages others to interfere with democratic processes.

As with any update to our policies, we carefully deliberated this change. This goes into effect today, Friday, June 2. With that in mind, and with 2024 campaigns well underway, we will stop removing content that advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections. 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 without meaningfully reducing the risk of violence or other real-world harm. Two years, tens of thousands of video removals, and one election cycle later, we recognized it was time to reevaluate the effects of this policy in today’s changed landscape. We first instituted a provision of our elections misinformation policy focused on the integrity of past US Presidential elections in December 2020, once the states’ safe harbor date for certification had passed. You see, that day the company announced an update to its approach to moderating election misinformation, effectively saying that it would no longer try to police most such misinformation regarding the legitimacy of the 2020 election: Judging by the number of very angry press releases that landed in my inbox this past Friday, you’d think that YouTube had decided to personally burn down democracy.