YouTube announced plans to stop deleting videos that make false claims about fraud in the 2020 US presidential election. The policy was put it place shortly after the 2020 election; to date, the company has deleted tens of thousands of videos making unsubstantiated or inaccurate claims about election fraud. The new policy went into effect on June 2. - In a statement, the Google-owned platform said that, while the policy had managed to "curb some misinformation," it also had the "unintended effect of curtailing political speech."
- The company neither indicated what triggered the policy change or how it plans to combat misinformation ahead of the 2024 US presidential election.
- YouTube will continue to remove videos with some forms of election misinformation, such as clips with inaccurate instructions for where and how to vote.
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