YouTube says it will stop removing false claims about past elections

The site announced that starting Friday it would stop removing misinformation about past elections in an effort to avoid “curtailing political speech.”

YouTube has decided to stop fighting election denialism. On Friday, the site announced it will stop removing videos containing misinformation about the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The move is a stark reversal of its election integrity policy, which was instituted in December 2020, after enough states had certified the election results.

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