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YouTube will let creators who spread covid misinformation back on the site

Google has announced it will reverse a major content moderation decision: YouTube will offer channels that were banned for spreading covid and election misinformation in 2020 a pathway back onto the platform.

In a letter sent to the House Judiciary Committee, Alphabet’s lawyers claimed that the Biden administration had previously “pressed the Company” to remove user-generated Covid-19 content that had not violated Alphabet’s policies, and that the “political atmosphere” had forced their hand. “It is unacceptable and wrong when any government, including the Biden Administration, attempts to dictate how the Company moderates content,” they wr …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/policy/784238/youtube-covid-election-misinformation-reversal

Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/policy/784238/youtube-covid-election-misinformation-reversal

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