YouTube bans videos containing hacked information that could interfere with the election:
As Democrats and Republicans prepare to hold their national conventions starting next week, YouTube on Thursday announced updates to its policies on deceptive videos and other content designed to interfere with the election.
The world's largest video platform, with more than 2 billion users a month, will ban videos containing information that was obtained through hacking and could meddle with elections or censuses. That would include material like hacked campaign emails with details about a candidate. The update follows the announcement of a similar rule that Google, which owns YouTube, unveiled earlier this month banning ads that contain hacked information. Google will start enforcing that policy Sept. 1.
YouTube also said it will take down videos that encourage people to interfere with voting and other democratic processes. For example, videos telling people to create long lines at polling places in order to stifle the vote won't be allowed.
[...] YouTube has also tried to secure its platform from foreign actors. Last week, the company said it banned almost 2,600 channels linked to China as part of investigations into "coordinated influence operations" on the site. YouTube also took down dozens of channels linked to Russia and Iran that had apparent ties to influence campaigns.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Thexalon on Friday August 14 2020, @04:51PM (3 children)
When they say "hacked", they don't mean "partisan hack", because if they did that most of the major news networks couldn't post anything political anymore.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2020, @09:51PM (2 children)
Do major news outlets post to youtube?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2020, @10:08PM
Yes, and Youtube is using its algorithms to aggressively promote their content over that of independent content creators. Can't have corporate media dying off with cable, after all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2020, @11:29PM
https://www.youtube.com/user/CNN [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/user/bbcnews [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/user/FoxNewsChannel [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/user/msnbcleanforward [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/user/skynews [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/user/ReutersVideo [youtube.com]