YouTube Bans Election Misinformation a Month Too Late

YouTube Bans Election Misinformation a Month Too Late
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YouTube announced on Wednesday that it was no longer going to allow channels to post videos claiming widespread voter fraud occurred in the 2020 presidential election.

The move comes more than a month after the presidential election, a month during which right-wing channels spread unsubstantiated misinformation about vote-rigging and electoral fraud — and YouTube’s own algorithm helped channels promoting these lies to significantly boost their subscriber numbers.

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