YouTube: No 'deepfakes' or 'birther' videos in 2020 election

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YouTube: No ‘deepfakes’ or ‘birther’ videos in 2020 election

By MATT O'BRIEN at AP

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YouTube is making clear there will be no “birtherism” on its platform during this year’s U.S. presidential election — a belated response to a type of conspiracy theory more prevalent in the 2012 race.

The Google-owned video service is also reiterating that it won’t allow election-related “deepfake” videos and anything that aims to mislead viewers about voting procedures and how to participate in the 2020 census.

YouTube clarified its rules ahead of the Iowa caucuses Monday. The company is mostly reiterating content guidelines that it has been putting in place since the last presidential election in 2016.

Its ban on technically manipulated videos of political figures was made apparent last year when YouTube became the first major platform to remove a doctored video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But the announcement Monday further clarifies that it will take down any election-related videos that are technically altered to mislead people in a way that goes beyond simply taking clips of speech out of context. The company also said it would remove doctored videos that could cause “serious risk of egregious harm” — such as to make it appear that a government official is dead.

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[mr_lebowski]

1. It's a start (nt)

[underthematrix]

2. This is excellent policy. It reminds me of the French model. However, I stopped using YouTube after

Rachel exposed the fact that the largest internet follow was a Russian company.

I no longer use Facebook and I've now added YouTube.

I believe this shift in company policy is what we have to do for the lazy, the blamer, the whiner, and the stupid.

People refuse to change their behavior in response to FACT-based information so the platforms has to do it for them.

People do the same thing when it comes to health pandemics. They're waiting for someone to rescue them and if they don't they blame the person or persons or group who failed to save them.

In 2020, we have to save ourselves and must do it by being proactive.