YouTube to Remove Videos Questioning Biden’s Win Despite Ongoing Legal Battles
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Google-owned video services YouTube has announced plans to remove any content that questions Democratic nominee Joe Biden's win in this year's presidential election.

This despite the ongoing legal challenges, which involves multiple states, as reported by Breitbart.

YouTube announced that it will be also promoting "authoritative news sources," like NBC and CBS in video recommendations. The video sharing platform announced this development in a blog post that they released.

"For example, we will remove videos claiming that a Presidential candidate won the election due to widespread software glitches or counting errors," YouTube was quoted on a report. YouTube continued to say that they will start implementing this policy on Wednesday, and will ramp up efforts in weeks to come.

"As always, news coverage and commentary on these issues can remain on our site if there's sufficient education, documentary, scientific or artistic context," YouTube further explained on its blog post.

The video platform giant also said that they are going to address its video recommendations, wherein its viewers find content, YouTube also limited the reach of surfacing authoritative information.

This one of the important ways that they can protect their users and viewers from the said problematic content. The Google-owned platform also said that more than 70 percent of recommendations on election-related topics come from authoritative news sources.

They added that the top recommended videos and channels for election-related content were primarily authoritative news.

In a graph that YouTube included, it showed that the most-viewed U.S. election related content on the platform was ABC News. In the Top Channels category, ABC News was the highest ranking, followed by NBC News, USA Today, CNN, and CBS News.

For the Top Video category, ABC News was still the highest ranking, followed by USA Today, NBC News, and CBS News.

YouTube said that it reached its decision to begin removing the videos after claiming that enough states have certified their election results to determine a president-elect, as reported by The Verge.

Lawsuits Challenging Election Results

YouTube's announcement came after numerous lawsuits placed by U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign, which challenges results of the presidential election.

The Supreme Court rejected on Tuesday a request to block certification of Pennsylvania's election results. This makes it nearly impossible for Republicans to invalidate Biden's victory in court.

Its parent company Google said it is lifting its temporary pause on elections-related advertisement. This while YouTube implements its decision.

YouTube's new implementation will affect One American News Network, who was known to be banned from posting on the platform.

OANN has repeatedly uploaded baseless allegation that the election was stolen from Trump, as reported by CNBC News. YouTube has been repeatedly attacked for allowing election misinformation.

The video platform has said that it has terminated more than 8,000 channels and thousand of videos for violating its existing community policies. This was since September.

With YouTube's decision, the public's focus now shifts to Twitter and Facebook as to whether they will follow YouTube's move.