YouTube to Ban Misleading Videos That Could Impact Elections

YouTube said it will ban misleading or doctored videos that could impact elections, tightening its rules ahead of the presidential election. The video-streaming site said in a blog post that it will remove altered videos such as “deepfakes” and videos with patently false information, such as clips that report a living candidate is dead.

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