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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Nov 5, 2020, 08:59 PM Nov 2020

YouTube fails to remove video falsely declaring Trump victory

Source: The Guardian

YouTube has been criticised for failing to remove a video wrongly claiming that Donald Trump won Tuesday’s US presidential election, despite acknowledging it contains demonstrably false information.

The Google-owned site has instead disabled adverts on the video, produced by the far-right TV channel One America News Network. A spokesperson said: “We remove ads from videos that contain content that is demonstrably false about election results, like this video.”

The video, which has been viewed almost 400,000 times since it was posted on Wednesday, opens with the channel’s anchor, Christina Bobb, declaring: “President Trump won four more years in office last night.”

Bobb goes on to say that a number of states where the voting has yet to be completed, including Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, are “all Trump’s … This is a decisive victory for Trump”. She accuses the “Democrat leadership” of Pennsylvania and Michigan of stopping the vote counts, because “they need time to find more ballots”.



Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/youtube-fails-to-remove-video-falsely-declaring-trump-victory/ar-BB1aIX1H?li=BBnb7Kz

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YouTube fails to remove video falsely declaring Trump victory (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2020 OP
Well, that'll teach 'em! Dark n Stormy Knight Nov 2020 #1
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