Our main goal going into the election season was to make sure we’re connecting people with authoritative information, while also limiting the reach of misinformation and removing harmful content.

What gives YouTube the right to determine what's "authoritative?" Why should people only listen to "authoritative information?!" How do we know the authoritative sources aren't spreading "misinformation and harmful content?"

Since September, we've terminated over 8000 channels and thousands of harmful and misleading elections-related videos for violating our existing policies. Over 77% of those removed videos were taken down before they had 100 views.

How does YouTube know it's harmful or misleading? So what if it's harmful or misleading, WE HAVE A RIGHT TO INFORMATION.

Yesterday 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. They're removing any content they don't like that argues there is election fraud.

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.

They only want people to watch MSM and fake news and they make sure of it by prominently showing MSM in search results related to politics.

[S]ome videos, while not recommended prominently on YouTube, continue to get high views, sometimes coming from other sites. We're continuing to consider this and other new challenges as we make ongoing improvements.

They don't like the way videos they shadow banned on YouTube are being shared other places where they can't shadow ban them.

SUMMARY: FUCK YOUTUBE