House Democrats Blast YouTube’s Election Disinformation ‘Reversal’
YouTube is wrong to allow “false content disputing the integrity” of the 2020 election and other elections to remain on its platform, House Commerce Committee Democrats wrote the company Thursday. They said a recent announcement to reverse election misinformation policies…
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will allow false content to remain on the service. Ranking member Frank Pallone, D-N.J., wrote the letter with House Consumer Protection Subcommittee ranking member Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill.; House Communications Subcommittee ranking member Doris Matsui, D-Calif.; and House Oversight Subcommittee ranking member Cathy Castor, D-Fla. “While you claim that taking such action is ‘core to a functioning democratic society,’ we emphatically disagree,” they said. “Not only is this decision extremely irresponsible, but, in fact, it threatens to weaken our democracy, and therefore we strongly urge you to reconsider this harmful policy decision.” Google didn’t comment.