The disputed 2020 election now appears in the rearview mirror for YouTube, which is now determining what users can see relevant to the next election.
The Alphabet-owned, video-sharing site and Google sibling has censored at least two videos, and may be throttling a third, featuring Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shortly after ending a two-and-a-half-year ban on questioning the “integrity” of the last presidential election, saying it accomplished little relative to the potential harm it caused.
Leading Democrats who insist they are “firm believers in the First Amendment” aren’t pleased with YouTube simply switching which election it will target for censorship.
The ranking members on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and its subcommittees told YouTube last week that the “integrity” ban reversal “threatens to weaken our democracy” by subjecting the 2024 campaign to “several of the same misinformation tactics,” such as former President Trump’s claims in a campaign stop in Waco, Texas.