YouTube will begin removing content that “misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election”.
The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency director, Christopher Krebs did a good job protecting the elections from fraud, so Trump fired
According to YouTube, 88 percent of searches for US election information lead to high authority sources but does that matter when baseless misinformation circulates as
According to CrowdTangle, an analytics tool that Facebook owns, political content on the platform only makes up a small percentage of what users see.
Donald Trump’s Twitter profile is a stream of hidden tweets and misinformation warnings following his loss in the US elections.
Seeing Facebook playing an active role in protecting the integrity of the elections is great, now if YouTube could just take the same approach.
A video claiming Donald Trump won a second term in office is still online and being circulated on other social media platforms.
The move comes following Mark Zuckerberg’s concern about civil unrest in the US.
With the US elections drawing ever closer, Facebook is showing off how its guarding the gates.
The social networks say they would rather not interfere with freedom of speech.
Facebook says this is in the interest of newsworthiness but that doesn’t mean politicians can say whatever they want on the platform.
Donald Trump is the 45th president of the United States of America. Now for some good news…
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