President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign criticized YouTube’s decision to stop censoring certain election-related content, saying it could lead to “violence.”
Biden’s team characterized YouTube’s move to allow content creators to say that there was “widespread fraud” during the 2020 election and other races as a careless decision.
“YouTube’s reckless and irresponsible decision will invite further democratic decay and potential violence, and we urge them to reconsider this policy,” said campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz.
Munoz added that the new policy would do nothing to “erase” the outcome of the 2020 election, when Biden beat former President Donald Trump, also partly blaming “the spread of misinformation” for the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.
“The spread of misinformation helped lead to an unprecedented, violent assault on our nation’s capital that killed Americans. Social media companies played a central role in broadcasting those…
