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YouTube’s 2020 Election Policy: You Can Say What You Wish, As Long As It’s What We Tell You

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YouTube's 2020 Election Policy: You Can Say What You Wish, As Long As It's What We Tell You

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On December 9th, YouTube issued a statement saying that it supported the 2020 U.S. Presidential election and what it would do in a more tangible approach.

Notably, YouTube will delete any content that alleges that the US 2020 election contained any form of fraud, or if US President Donald Trump didn’t actually win.

“Yesterday [December 8th, 2020] was the safe harbor deadline for the U.S. Presidential election and enough states have certified their election results to determine a President-elect. Given that, we will start removing any piece of content uploaded today (or anytime after) that misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, in line with our approach towards historical U.S. Presidential elections. For example, we will remove videos claiming that a Presidential candidate won the election due to widespread software glitches or counting errors. We will begin enforcing this policy today, and will ramp up in the weeks to come. As always, news coverage and commentary on these issues can remain on our site if there’s sufficient education, documentary, scientific or artistic context.”

The information must come from “authoritative” news sources, all of them from MSM.

All information is also checked by “third party fact checkers” that also come from these same MSM outlets.

YouTube's 2020 Election Policy: You Can Say What You Wish, As Long As It's What We Tell You

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YouTube's 2020 Election Policy: You Can Say What You Wish, As Long As It's What We Tell You

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YouTube's 2020 Election Policy: You Can Say What You Wish, As Long As It's What We Tell You

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“Additionally, since Election Day, relevant fact check information panels, from third party fact checkers, were triggered over 200,000 times above relevant election-related search results, including for voter fraud narratives such as “Dominion voting machines” and “Michigan recount.”

Also, the algorithm is working as intended, recommending the “authoritative” news sources at least 14x more than those less fortunate outlets.

“Now let’s look at recommendations, one of the main ways our viewers find content. Limiting the reach of borderline content and prominently surfacing authoritative information are important ways we protect people from problematic content that doesn’t violate our Community Guidelines. Over 70% of recommendations on election-related topics came from authoritative news sources and the top recommended videos and channels for election-related content were primarily authoritative news. In fact, the top 10 authoritative news channels were recommended over 14X more than the top 10 non-authoritative channels on election-related content.”

Notably, without any evidence back in 2016 and onwards, reports from all sorts of media, not simply “authoritative” outlets, could claim the 2016 Presidential election was a fraud, that Russians meddled and more.

As soon as Trump lost the elections, it suddenly turned out that the election was fair and square, there were no issues and saying anything else would warrant a ban and censorship.

And, of course, this doesn’t show any political bias, but rather “objectivity”. After all, YouTube maintains that users can do and say whatever they wish, as long as it is what they’re told.

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Pave Way IV

At this point, the whole U.S. election fraud theatre looks like a controlled opposition operation. Just keep feeding enough evidence and whistleblowers to keep Trump supporters hopeful, but never anything to impress any judges or federal officials and always shot down as unsubstantiated or not credible (to them).

It’s almost like the deep state is trying to draw out as many critics as possible to “see where they went wrong this time” and prepare for the next U.S. elections fraud. The censorship isn’t so much to hide evidence now, but to keep Americans from questioning the overall legitimacy of all future rigged elections. I’m already there – I didn’t vote this time and never will again. Voting, in its current state in the U.S., is meaningless except for propaganda purposes.

The most obvious and irrefutable proof Americans possibly have is forged paper ballots. Notice how no one – not one single county or state – has demanded the stored ballots be examined to locate any of the reportedly unfolded, pristine, precisely-marked ballots on a different quality of paper. If they found even one, then it would be justification to thoroughly examine them all to identify tens of thousands of pre-printed, forged ballots. All kinds of federal agencies have that expertise, but nobody wants to do that or ever will. The Secretaries of States will obviously never allow it (via court orders, etc.). The more time goes on, the more time they have to ‘lose’ some of these stored ballots or replace them. They would have thought about this beforehand – there’s been plenty of time to clean up their sloppiness and whack whistleblowers. Nothing will happen.

Sam

The more tine passed, the more I worried it was just that.. a controlled opposition operation. I thought it was to make sure a civil war is triggered in order to divide the country. It’s apparently an old plan of the deep state. That said, don’t you think there is enough evidence to act outside the court of law.. or rather, will Trump do it? Flynn, Powell and others have called for the martial law..

Sam

The more time passes, the more I too see it as a controlled opposition operation but more in the sense of triggering a civil war and divide the US, an old plan of the Deep State. At the early stage of the fraud, Sydney Powell said, paraphrasing, she “was shocked how sloppy they were, as if they didn’t care to get caught, as if it was a distraction”. That said, don’t you think there is enough evidence to act outside the court of law.. or rather, will Trump do it? Flynn, Powell and others have called for the martial law to precisely avoid a civil war.

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