“With the start of the 2020 election season in the United States, people will go to YouTube to find out about the candidates and see how the election season unfolds. In the past few years, we have increased our efforts to make YouTube a more reliable source of news and information, as well as an open platform for healthy political discussion, ”the service’s website said in a statement.
It is specified that the site’s algorithms will block channels whose content “has been technically tampered with or used to mislead users.”
In addition, channels that publish videos with incorrect information, for example, about the election date, are subject to blocking.
YouTube noted that channels that “try to impersonate other channels or people” and “artificially wind up views, comments and other metric characteristics” will also be removed.
In August 2019, YouTube blocked a video that offends the state symbols of Russia.