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YouTube will censor election fraud claims. 4 Conspiracies YouTube Allows To Flourish While Censoring Claims Of Election Fraud
YouTube announced Wednesday that the Google-owned video platform would be removing content critical of the 2020 election results and instead would only promote coverage from corporate media.
“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,” YouTube released in a statement. “Given that, we will start removing any piece of content uploaded today (or anytime after) that misleads people by alleging widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome.”
It’s clear, however, that YouTube’s censorship is a one-way street. The new rules delegitimize claims of fraud in a pandemic contest that featured record-turnout in mail-in voting as nothing more than a bogus conspiracy theory.
YouTube is right that former Vice President Joe Biden is indeed the president-elect, capturing 306 electoral votes to President Donald Trump’s 232. The Trump campaign however has launched a series of legal challenges in several tipping-point states contesting the outcome, pursuing every avenue to prove its claims in court. Whether there was enough fraud to tip the race in Biden’s favor last month remains to be seen. Whether fraud actually took place, there’s no question.
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