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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: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2020, @06:33PM (3 children)
It's true! At night Trump sneaks out and rips up Biden signs from people's front yards! He laughs an evil cackle while he does it, too!
(Score: 2, Informative) by fustakrakich on Friday August 14 2020, @06:43PM (2 children)
Please, don't be an idiot. He is stealing mailboxes! [king5.com]
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 14 2020, @07:17PM (1 child)
At last. I've known since about 1969 that all those blue boxes were just surveillance devices. I was happy to see the last of those blue boxes dragged out of my neighborhood, and dumped into the swamp. Let it report on the snakes and fishes and alligators.
/me adjusts tinfoil hat
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2020, @04:01AM
I thought they were where you emptied your dog's pooper-scooper. Guess now I'll just have to put it in the red ones.