After years of shamelessly censoring discussions of the 2020 presidential election, YouTube has changed its election misinformation policy, but the damage has already been done.

YouTube announced Friday that the platform “will stop removing content that advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections.” Although the platform continued to press its own stance on the last election, YouTube admitted that in this case censorship perhaps wasn’t the answer: “In the current environment, we find that while removing this content does curb some misinformation, it could also have the unintended effect of curtailing political speech without meaningfully reducing the risk of violence or other real-world harm.” You don’t say?  

The change in policy is long overdue. By YouTube’s own admission, the censorship caused devastating damage, spanning “two years, tens of thousands of video removals, and one election cycle later.”

As users say “good riddance” to YouTube’s draconian censorship rule, here are four cases showing how the anti-free speech platform enforced its election misinformation policy:

Conservatives are under attack. Contact YouTube at 650-253-0000 and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on so-called hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.