YouTube says it already has been rigging search results and algorithms to hide “misleading” election videos, describing the censorship effort as, “Limiting the reach of borderline content and prominently surfacing authoritative information.” YouTube says that even though the “misleading” videos account for a miniscule part of viewership, “Problematic misinformation represents a fraction of 1% of what’s watched on YouTube in the U.S,” the firm says, “we know we can bring that number down even more.”

YouTube表示，它已經在操縱搜索結果和算法來隱藏“誤導性”選舉視頻，並將審查工作描述為“限制邊界內容的範圍並突出顯示權威信息。” YouTube表示，即使“誤導性”視頻僅占觀看人數的一小部分，但“有問題的錯誤信息僅占美國YouTube觀看量的1％，”該公司表示，“我們知道我們可以將這一數字降低更。”

YouTube之所以要審查政治言論，是因為特朗普總統因國會未能廢除保護YouTube之類的互聯網平台免受發行人待遇的第230條法律而威脅要否決軍事撥款法案。

公告摘錄：

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昨天是美國總統選舉的安全港期限和足夠的州已經證明他們的選舉結果，以確定當選總統。鑑於此，我們將開始刪除今天（或之後）任何時候上載的任何誤導人們的內容，這些內容指稱廣泛的欺詐或錯誤改變了2020年美國總統大選的結果，這與我們對美國歷史性總統大選的態度一致。例如，我們將刪除影片聲稱總統候選人在大選中獲勝，由於廣泛的軟件故障或計數錯誤。我們將從今天開始執行這項政策，並將在接下來的幾周內逐步加強。與往常一樣，如果有足夠的教育，紀錄片，科學或藝術背景，有關這些問題的新聞報道和評論可以保留在我們的網站上。

完整的公告：

支持2020年美國大選

支持2020年美國大選完整性的工作更新。

在過去的幾周和幾個月中，我們看到人們來YouTube了解更多有關在何處以及如何投票的信息，或者更多地了解候選人或問題。我們已經看到新聞機構增加了受眾。而且，我們已經看到人們轉向YouTube獲取最新的選舉結果，或者只是關注一個歷史性事件，該事件是美國一個多世紀以來投票率最高的

進入選舉季節的主要目標是確保我們將人們與權威信息聯繫在一起，同時還限制了錯誤信息的傳播範圍並消除了有害內容。這項工作正在進行中，我們希望提供更新。

刪除違反我們政策的內容

我們的社區準則禁止垃圾郵件，詐騙或其他操縱媒體，有影響力的行動以及任何煽動暴力的內容。自9月以來，由於違反了我們現有的政策，我們已終止了8000多個頻道以及成千上萬與選舉有關的有害和誤導性視頻。在這些已刪除的視頻中，超過77％的視頻在獲得100次觀看之前就被刪除了。

我們還努力確保在正確的位置畫出刪除內容與允許內容之間的界線。我們的政策禁止在位置和方式上誤導觀眾。我們也不允許內容指稱廣泛的欺詐或錯誤改變了歷史性的美國總統大選的結果。但是，在某些情況下，這意味着在選舉官員努力完成點票工作時，允許對當前選舉的點票結果或過程發表有爭議的看法。

昨天是美國總統選舉的安全港期限和足夠的州已經證明他們的選舉結果，以確定當選總統。鑑於此，我們將開始刪除今天（或之後）任何時候上載的任何誤導人們的內容，這些內容指稱廣泛的欺詐或錯誤改變了2020年美國總統大選的結果，這與我們對美國歷史性總統大選的態度一致。例如，我們將刪除影片聲稱總統候選人在大選中獲勝，由於廣泛的軟件故障或計數錯誤。我們將從今天開始執行這項政策，並將在接下來的幾周內逐步加強。與往常一樣，如果有足夠的教育，紀錄片，科學或藝術背景，有關這些問題的新聞報道和評論可以保留在我們的網站上。

將人們與權威信息聯繫起來

儘管觀看時間中只有一小部分是與選舉相關的內容，但YouTube仍然是選舉新聞的重要來源。與選舉相關的前10個搜索結果中，平均有88％的視頻來自權威新聞來源（其餘新聞包括深夜新聞，創作者視頻和評論）。觀看次數最多的頻道和視頻來自NBC和CBS等新聞頻道。

我們還展示了與Google的選舉結果功能（可從美聯社獲取選舉結果）以及網絡安全與基礎設施安全局（CISA）的“謠言控制”頁面相關聯的信息面板，這些信息用於揭穿選舉完整性錯誤信息，還有其他信息，還有200,000與選舉相關的視頻。這些信息面板總共顯示超過45億次。從今天開始，我們將更新此信息面板，連接從聯邦註冊辦公室的“2020選舉團結果”頁面，並指出，由於12月8日，國家已認證的總統選舉結果，與拜登為總統當選人。它還將繼續包含指向CISA的鏈接，

此外，自選舉日以來，來自第三方事實檢查員的有關事實檢查信息面板的觸發次數比有關選舉相關的搜索結果高200,000倍，其中包括針對“ Dominion投票機”和“密歇根州重新計票”等選民欺詐言論。

現在，讓我們來看一下推薦，這是觀眾發現內容的主要方式之一。限制邊界內容的範圍並突出顯示權威信息是我們保護人們免受不違反我們的社區準則的有問題內容的重要方式。超過70％的與選舉相關主題的推薦來自權威新聞來源，而與選舉有關的內容推薦最多的視頻和頻道主要是權威新聞。實際上，與選舉相關內容的前十大權威新聞頻道相比，前十大權威新聞頻道的推薦率高14倍以上。

儘管取得了令人鼓舞的結果，但我們認識到還有很多事情要做。例如，儘管有問題的錯誤信息僅占美國YouTube觀看量的1％，但我們知道我們可以將這一數字進一步降低。而且，儘管在YouTube上不推薦使用某些視頻，但它們仍繼續獲得較高的觀看次數，有時來自其他網站。在不斷改進的過程中，我們將繼續考慮這一挑戰和其他新挑戰。

我們知道有必要對與選舉有關的工作進行嚴格審查。我們的團隊努力工作，以確保在廣泛的政治演講與確保我們的平台不被濫用以煽動現實世界的傷害或廣泛傳播有害的錯誤信息之間取得平衡。我們歡迎正在進行的辯論和討論，並將繼續與專家，研究人員和組織合作，以確保我們的政策和產品能夠實現該目標。一如既往，我們會將這次選舉的經驗教訓應用到我們為保護全球選舉的完整性所做的持續努力中。

YouTube’s move to censor political speech comes as President Trump is threatening to veto the military appropriations bill over the failure of Congress to repeal the Section 230 law that protects Internet platforms like YouTube from being treated like publishers.

Excerpt from the announcement:

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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. 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.

Complete announcement:

Supporting the 2020 U.S. election

Updates to our work supporting the integrity of the 2020 U.S. election.

Over the past weeks and months, we’ve seen people coming to YouTube to learn more about where and how to vote or learning more about a candidate or an issue. We’ve seen news organizations grow their audience. And we’ve seen people turn to YouTube for the latest election results or simply to follow an historic event with the highest voting turnout in over a century in the U.S.

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. The work here is ongoing and we wanted to provide an update.

Removing content that violates our policies

Our Community Guidelines prohibit spam, scams, or other manipulated media, coordinated influence operations, and any content that seeks to incite violence. 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.

We also work to make sure that the line between what is removed and what is allowed is drawn in the right place. Our policies prohibit misleading viewers about where and how to vote. We also disallow content alleging widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of a historical U.S. Presidential election. However in some cases, that has meant allowing controversial views on the outcome or process of counting votes of a current election as election officials have worked to finalize counts.

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. 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.

Connecting people to authoritative information

While only a small portion of watch time is election-related content, YouTube continues to be an important source of election news. On average 88% of the videos in top 10 search results related to elections came from authoritative news sources (amongst the rest are things like newsy late-night shows, creator videos and commentary). And the most viewed channels and videos are from news channels like NBC and CBS.

We also showed information panels linking both to Google’s election results feature, which sources election results from The Associated Press, and to the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) “Rumor Control” page for debunking election integrity misinformation, alongside these and over 200,000 other election-related videos. Collectively, these information panels have been shown over 4.5 billion times. Starting today, we will update this information panel, linking to the “2020 Electoral College Results” page from the Office of the Federal Register, noting that as of December 8, states have certified Presidential election results, with Joe Biden as the President-elect. It will also continue to include a link to CISA, explaining that states certify results after ensuring ballots are properly counted and correcting irregularities and errors.

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.”

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.

Despite these encouraging results, we recognize there’s always more to do. For example, while problematic misinformation represents a fraction of 1% of what’s watched on YouTube in the U.S., we know we can bring that number down even more. And some 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.

We understand the need for intense scrutiny on our elections-related work. Our teams work hard to ensure we are striking a balance between allowing for a broad range of political speech and making sure our platform isn’t abused to incite real-world harm or broadly spread harmful misinformation. We welcome ongoing debate and discussion and will keep engaging with experts, researchers and organizations to ensure that our policies and products are meeting that goal. And as always, we’ll apply learnings from this election to our ongoing efforts to protect the integrity of elections around the world.

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