YouTube To Finally Start Removing ‘Stolen Election’ Content Weeks After Election Day

[yota691]

ELECTION 2020|Dec 9, 2020,11:38am EST|7,880 views

YouTube To Finally Start Removing ‘Stolen Election’ Content Weeks After Election Day

Alison DurkeeForbes Staff

Business

Updated Dec 9, 2020, 11:49am EST

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YouTube will take down new videos that claim President-elect Joe Biden won the election due to fraud or error, the company announced Wednesday, after the social network came under fierce criticism for allowing content advancing President Donald Trump’s baseless voter fraud claims to remain on the platform long after the election was decided.

President Donald Trump attends a rally on December 05, 2020 in Valdosta, Georgia.(Photo by Spencer ... [+]

YouTube will remove any videos uploaded from Wednesday onwards that “misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election,” the company said in a blog post.

The social media platform said it would start taking action now that the “safe harbor” deadline that allows states to lock in their certified results with Congress passed on Tuesday, and as enough states have certified their election results to push Biden over the 270-vote threshold needed to win the Electoral College.

YouTube has already removed “thousands” of videos and more than 8,000 channels for election-related content that violated its existing policies, which ban “spam, scams, or other manipulated media, coordinated influence operations, and any content that seeks to incite violence,” the company said.

The platform had already prohibited content that alleges the outcome of a previous presidential election before 2020 was affected by fraud or error.

YouTube will also update an election information panel to show the official Electoral College results page from the Federal Register, and note “that as of December 8, states have certified Presidential election results, with Joe Biden as the President-elect.”

BIG NUMBER

680 million. That’s how many times YouTube videos discussing “election fraud” were viewed on YouTube as of Nov. 16, according to an independent analysis by Transparency Tube. That number includes videos that both support and dispute claims of voter fraud, with the analysis finding that videos supporting voter fraud claims received 137 million views between Nov. 3 and Nov. 7 alone.

KEY BACKGROUND

YouTube has been criticized in the wake of the election for not doing more to combat misinformation and refusing to take down videos with false claims about voter fraud. A policy allowing people to express views on the election served as a “loophole” that outlets like One America News Network used to push Trump’s allegations of rampant voter fraud, as well as directly profit off of the claims through advertising. (There is no evidence to support the president’s voter fraud claims, and his campaign and GOP allies have lost more than 50 post-election lawsuits, including cases alleging voter fraud.) Competitors like Facebook and Twitter have taken steps to combat the president’s misinformation, labeling the president’s posts or banning political ads entirely. Despite their efforts, Trump’s fraud claims have spread among his base, with polling showing that a significant majority of Trump voters do not believe Biden fairly won the election.

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1 hour ago, yota691 said:

Competitors like Facebook and Twitter have taken steps to combat the president’s misinformation, labeling the president’s posts or banning political ads entirely.

 

Hey Twitter!!!

 

LOOKIE HERE!!!

 

 

I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the ability of persons located, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States to interfere in or undermine public confidence in United States elections, including through the unauthorized accessing of election and campaign infrastructure or the covert distribution of propaganda and disinformation, constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.

 

Sec. 2. (a) All property and interests in property that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of any United States person of the following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: any foreign person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security:

(i) to have directly or indirectly engaged in, sponsored, concealed, or otherwise been complicit in foreign interference in a United States election;

(ii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, any activity described in subsection (a)(i) of this section or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or

(iii) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property or interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order.

 

(b) the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the heads of other appropriate agencies, shall jointly prepare a recommendation for the President as to whether additional sanctions against foreign persons may be appropriate in response to the identified foreign interference and in light of the evaluation in the report mandated by section 1(b) of this order, including, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, proposed sanctions with respect to the largest business entities licensed or domiciled in a country whose government authorized, directed, sponsored, or supported election interference, including at least one entity from each of the following sectors: financial services, defense, energy, technology, and transportation (or, if inapplicable to that country’s largest business entities, sectors of comparable strategic significance to that foreign government). The recommendation shall include an assessment of the effect of the recommended sanctions on the economic and national security interests of the United States and its allies. Any recommended sanctions shall be appropriately calibrated to the scope of the foreign interference identified, and may include one or more of the following with respect to each targeted foreign person:

(i) blocking and prohibiting all transactions in a person’s property and interests in property subject to United States jurisdiction;

(ii) export license restrictions under any statute or regulation that requires the prior review and approval of the United States Government as a condition for the export or re-export of goods or services;

(iii) prohibitions on United States financial institutions making loans or providing credit to a person;

(iv) restrictions on transactions in foreign exchange in which a person has any interest;

(v) prohibitions on transfers of credit or payments between financial institutions, or by, through, or to any financial institution, for the benefit of a person;

(vi) prohibitions on United States persons investing in or purchasing equity or debt of a person;

(vii) exclusion of a person’s alien corporate officers from the United States;

(viii) imposition on a person’s alien principal executive officers of any of the sanctions described in this section; or

(ix) any other measures authorized by law.

 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-imposing-certain-sanctions-event-foreign-interference-united-states-election/

 

I wonder how many days before all these entities are taken over and the propaganda machines shut down.

 

Can't wait.

 

Pray for The True The United States Of America Patriot President Donald J Trump AND The True The United States Of America Patriots for Safe, Swift, Secure, AND Successful Missions!!!

[Pitcher]

Funny how Dems were allowed to vent and post “Conspiracy Theories” for 4 years after their Candidate got beat.  The only ones that get censored in the USA these days are the Conservatives and Reps.  Your First Amendment Rights are being stripped from you people.   

[Denny738]

I agree.  Gotta hope Trump pulls this out and stays in office.