YouTube Announces Ban on Videos Alleging ‘Widespread Fraud or Errors’ in 2020 Election

By Debra Heine – December 9, 2020 – amgreatness.com

YouTube announced on Wednesday that it will remove any videos alleging widespread fraud in the 2020 election, essentially banning most, if not all content promoted by President Trump’s legal team on the platform. To enforce the strict new policy, YouTube said it will remove all videos that claim Presidential Trump “won the election due to widespread software glitches or counting errors.”

The “YouTube team” said in a blog post that they have disallowed content in the past alleging widespread election fraud or errors, but in some cases, “that has meant allowing controversial views on the outcome or process of counting votes of a current election as election officials have worked to finalize counts.”

Now that the “safe harbor deadline” has come and gone, YouTube will be enforcing a zero-tolerance policy on videos that contradict the liberal consensus on the election.

Yesterday was the safe harbor deadline for the U.S. Presidential election and enough states have certified their election results to determine a President-elect. Given that, we will start removing any piece of content uploaded today (or anytime after) that misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, in line with our approach towards historical U.S. Presidential elections.

For example, we will remove videos claiming that a Presidential candidate won the election due to widespread software glitches or counting errors. We will begin enforcing this policy today, and will ramp up in the weeks to come. As always, news coverage and commentary on these issues can remain on our site if there’s sufficient education, documentary, scientific or artistic context.

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