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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: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Friday August 14 2020, @07:02PM (1 child)
There are reliable sources of information: Collections of peer reviewed studies, legal documents, widely acknowledged experts in the field, etc.
What there aren't are reliable summaries for people who don't have the background needed to understand who is completely full of crap. And that's very intentional: There are entire industries of people whose job it is to lie convincingly to as many laypeople as possible, because even if they don't convince everybody they'll convince enough people that what should be a settled issue is now a "debate" with "valid arguments on both sides", and now all the laypeople are confused.
A good Baloney Detection Kit can help. Another good rule is that if 99% of people who have the training and experience to know something about the subject under discussion say X is true, and 1% say X is false, the odds are very very good that X is true.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by HiThere on Friday August 14 2020, @08:07PM
Well, that's true for certain values of "reliable". Demanding certainty is almost certain to get you information that's at least slightly false.
E.g. I can't decide whether Kamala Harris is owned by the copyright lobbies, or whether her position is negotiable. Or perhaps she was just a "gun for hire". In any case I find her better than Pence, if not by as much as I'd like. Sometimes you have to live with uncertainty and make the best choice you can.
P.S.: Newspapers weren't all that reliable either. Check out how the war with Cuba was started.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.