YouTube Deletes Jan. 6 Committee Video for Including Trump's False Election Claims

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Daily Beast

The House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol has fallen afoul of YouTube’s misinformation rules because its clip from the hearings included footage of Donald Trump speaking on Fox Business. The video site deleted the file uploaded by the panel on Tuesday showing testimony from former Attorney General William Barr because it also included the former president's election lies.

“We had glitches where they moved thousands of votes from my account to Biden’s account,” Trump baselessly states in the excerpt, adding that the Department of Justice and FBI may have been involved in the imagined plot against him. The clip that the panel uploaded didn’t include Barr’s repeatedly stated belief that Trump’s stolen election claims were wrong.

In a statement, YouTube spokesperson Ivy Choi said: “Our election integrity policy prohibits content advancing false claims that widespread fraud, errors or glitches changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, if it does not provide sufficient context. We enforce our policies equally for everyone, and have removed the video uploaded by the Jan. 6 committee channel.”

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/youtube-deletes-jan-6-committee-video-for-including-trumps-false-election-claims

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Daily Beast then references the NYT (short live updates) article - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/16/us/youtube-jan-6-video-trump.html

YouTube deleted a Jan. 6 committee video that included Trump’s election lies.


June 16, 2022, 7:52 p.m. ET June 16, 2022


The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot has been trying to draw more eyes to its televised hearings by uploading clips of the proceedings online. But YouTube has removed one of those videos from its platform, saying the committee was advancing election misinformation. The excerpt, which was uploaded June 14, included recorded testimony from former Attorney General William P. Barr.

But the problem for YouTube was that the video also included a clip of former President Donald J. Trump sharing lies about the election on the Fox Business channel. “We had glitches where they moved thousands of votes from my account to Biden’s account,” Mr. Trump said falsely, before suggesting the F.B.I. and Department of Justice may have been involved.

The excerpt of the hearing did not include Mr. Barr’s perspective, stated numerous times elsewhere in the hearing, that Mr. Trump’s assertion that the election was stolen was wrong. The video initially was replaced with a black box stating that the clip had been removed for violating YouTube’s terms of service.

“Our election integrity policy prohibits content advancing false claims that widespread fraud, errors or glitches changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, if it does not provide sufficient context,” YouTube spokeswoman Ivy Choi said in a statement. “We enforce our policies equally for everyone, and have removed the video uploaded by the Jan. 6 committee channel.” The message on the video page has since been changed to “This video is private,” which may mean that YouTube would allow the committee to upload a version of the clip that makes clear that Trump’s claims are false.

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Well, that's messed up.

[Eugene]

2. YouTube's algorithms are simplistic, but the human response is brain-dead.

[ZonkerHarris]

3. The J6 Committee IS the fucking 'context' you fucking YouTube morons.

[DippyDem]

4. +1

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Righteous rant!

[erronis]

8. All these algorithms may take over. Welcome to the crap we imperfect humans have left.

Love hearing about musk's cars crashing and burning.

Love hearing how IBM's Watson couldn't figure out a simple diagnostic code and billing.

Love hearing how Amazon steers us gullibles into buying shit we don't want.

Love hearing how Google prioritizes its search results based on advertiser funding

Love hearing how our "representatives" are bought and paid for by anybody except who they are representing.

Love knowing that foreign and domestic power players are totally destroying a country founded on principles of "by the people and for the people".

NOT

[Rebl2]

5. How ridiculous

[barbtries]

7. context, youtube,

consider context. this is stupid.

[sakabatou]

9. Youtube bots are so goddamn stupid.

[dalton99a]

10. Goddamn idiotic.

[PurgedVoter]

11. Then why do I get constant obvious lies in videos suggested to me?

Here is how you too can get more insane, inaccurate and bogus lies than you can shake a Matt Gaetz at.

Start looking at videos on Religious history. Add in mysticism and philosophy. Throw in a bit of cutting edge science. The mix of that, no matter how well founded is going to bring you some seriously bogus stuff. I don't mean new age woowoo, I am in to that as long as it stays positive. No I mean bogus, stuff that can easily be shot down by anyone with a clue. Stuff that makes your neighbors theory on how the pyramids were made sound plausible.

Not just the mystic stuff no one can prove and is rather doubtful, I mean the full out hollow earth meets flat earth ancient architects singing to make granite into a fluid so they could fit bricks stuff. Despite the fallen stones having tool marks, they persist in the liquid rock thing.

[live love laugh]

12. Just like socmedia banned MelYawnia's porn.

So basically if public figures flagrantly violate social media rules they evade scrutiny

Where’s the common sense?

[Justice matters.]

14. Really? There's a gazillion fake videos of false flying objects...

and all kinds crazy conspiracies that remain there for YEARS but THIS is what they pull??

This species has amused itself to death!

[Delphinus]

19. You said it:

this species has amused itself to death. {smdh}

[brooklynite]

15. Before you rant too much...

The full Hearings of the Committee, including all presented videos, are still available on Youtube. The video in question was an extract that arguably might have violated the content policy by not being put in context.

[BumRushDaShow]

16. The full hearings are also available at the Committee's website and in CSPAN's video archive

(which even includes user-clips), but the point is that violative video uploads fly fast and furious on YouTube, even after complaints/reporting (anyone viewing topical political videos gets their cookies read and then get served too much RW CT nonsense), so the complaints are justified.

[intheflow]

17. Exactly.

Poor editing would have allowed MAGA sharing of official J6 video to support their sham claims that the hearings are a sham. This is, in fact, what social media should be doing to suppress misinformation. Poor editing is on us; we can do better.

[NullTuples]

18. "if it does not provide sufficient context" - the committee is debunking the claims, yes?