YouTube will stop removing content that falsely claims the 2020 election or other past U.S. presidential elections were marred by “widespread fraud, errors or glitches," the platform announced Friday. The company said its other existing rules against election misinformation remain unchanged. This could prove difficult to enforce, said John Wihbey, an associate professor at Northeastern University who studies social media and misinformation. “I don’t know how you disentangle rhetoric that both refers to past wrongs and to forward possibilities. 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.

Source: Huffington Post June 03, 2023 04:32 UTC