YouTube changes policy allowing disputing results of 2020 or previous elections

YouTube said in a blog post that the updated policy was an attempt to protect the ability to “openly debate political ideas

YouTube will stop removing content that claims the 2020 election or other past U.S. presidential elections were marred by “widespread fraud, errors or glitches,” the platform announced Friday.

The change is a reversal for the Google-owned video service, which said a month after the 2020 election that it would start removing new posts that falsely claimed widespread voter fraud or errors changed the outcome.

YouTube said in a blog post that the updated policy was an attempt to protect the ability to “openly debate political ideas, even those that are controversial or based on disproven assumptions.”