"YouTube's reckless and irresponsible decision will invite
further democratic decay and potential violence, and we urge
them to reconsider this policy," Biden campaign spokesperson
Kevin Munoz said in a statement.
YouTube said on Friday the platform would stop removing content
that might have spread false claims related to U.S. presidential
elections in 2020 and before.
The platform said that while removing the content did curb "some
misinformation, it could also have the unintended effect of
curtailing political speech."
Biden's opponent, former President Donald Trump, has falsely
claimed that the election was marred by widespread fraud. Trump
supporters attempted to contest the result in the Jan. 6, 2021,
storming of the U.S. Capitol.
Munoz noted that YouTube's policy change did "not erase" the
fact that Biden fairly won the 2020 presidential election and
said that social media companies had played a role in spreading
lies in 2020.
Biden, a Democrat, is running for re-election in 2024, and
Trump, a Republican, is seeking his party's nomination to take
on Biden again.
(Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt and Kanishka Singh in Washington;
Editing by Chris Reese, Richard Chang and Tom Hogue)
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