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

Google has announced it volition reverse a large contented moderation decision: YouTube volition connection channels that were banned for spreading covid and predetermination misinformation successful 2020 a pathway backmost onto the platform.

In a missive sent to the House Judiciary Committee, Alphabet's lawyers claimed that the Biden medication had antecedently "pressed the Company" to region user-generated Covid-19 contented that had not violated Alphabet's policies, and that the "political atmosphere" had forced their hand. "It is unacceptable and incorrect erstwhile immoderate government, including the Biden Administration, attempts to dictate however the Company moderates content," they wr …

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