YouTube’s lax misinformation rules are letting election lies spread

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

For people who stumbled their way onto One American News Network (OANN)’s YouTube channel over the last few days, it might be easy to think President ***** won the 2020 election.

Videos titled “***** won. Dems try to pull a fast one” and “***** Won. MSM hopes you don’t believe your eyes,” started appearing on OANN’s YouTube channel on November 4th — one day after people cast their votes in the federal election. The videos are full of lies predicated on people’s fears that would trigger moderation on another network, including:

“It appears that ***** won by such a large margin, now they’re actually pumping out illegal ballots into the battleground states to actually beat him.”

“They think that they can add 100,000 votes that no one gets…

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