YouTube says it already has been rigging search results and algorithms to hide “misleading” election videos, describing the censorship effort as, “Limiting the reach of borderline content and prominently surfacing authoritative information.” YouTube says that even though the “misleading” videos account for a miniscule part of viewership, “Problematic misinformation represents a fraction of 1% of what’s watched on YouTube in the U.S,” the firm says, “we know we can bring that number down even more.”

YouTube表示，它已经在操纵搜索结果和算法来隐藏“误导性”选举视频，并将审查工作描述为“限制边界内容的范围并突出显示权威信息。” YouTube表示，即使“误导性”视频仅占观看人数的一小部分，但“有问题的错误信息仅占美国YouTube观看量的1％，”该公司表示，“我们知道我们可以将这一数字降低更。”

YouTube之所以要审查政治言论，是因为川普总统因国会未能废除保护YouTube之类的互联网平台免受发行人待遇的第230条法律而威胁要否决军事拨款法案。

公告摘录：

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昨天是美国总统选举的安全港期限和足够的州已经证明他们的选举结果，以确定当选总统。鉴于此，我们将开始删除今天（或之后）任何时候上载的任何误导人们的内容，这些内容指称广泛的欺诈或错误改变了2020年美国总统大选的结果，这与我们对美国历史性总统大选的态度一致。例如，我们将删除影片声称总统候选人在大选中获胜，由于广泛的软件故障或计数错误。我们将从今天开始执行这项政策，并将在接下来的几周内逐步加强。与往常一样，如果有足够的教育，纪录片，科学或艺术背景，有关这些问题的新闻报道和评论可以保留在我们的网站上。

完整的公告：

支持2020年美国大选

支持2020年美国大选完整性的工作更新。

在过去的几周和几个月中，我们看到人们来YouTube了解更多有关在何处以及如何投票的信息，或者更多地了解候选人或问题。我们已经看到新闻机构增加了受众。而且，我们已经看到人们转向YouTube获取最新的选举结果，或者只是关注一个历史性事件，该事件是美国一个多世纪以来投票率最高的

进入选举季节的主要目标是确保我们将人们与权威信息联系在一起，同时还限制了错误信息的传播范围并消除了有害内容。这项工作正在进行中，我们希望提供更新。

删除违反我们政策的内容

我们的社区准则禁止垃圾邮件，诈骗或其他操纵媒体，有影响力的行动以及任何煽动暴力的内容。自9月以来，由于违反了我们现有的政策，我们已终止了8000多个频道以及成千上万与选举有关的有害和误导性视频。在这些已删除的视频中，超过77％的视频在获得100次观看之前就被删除了。

我们还努力确保在正确的位置画出删除内容与允许内容之间的界线。我们的政策禁止在位置和方式上误导观众。我们也不允许内容指称广泛的欺诈或错误改变了历史性的美国总统大选的结果。但是，在某些情况下，这意味着在选举官员努力完成点票工作时，允许对当前选举的点票结果或过程发表有争议的看法。

昨天是美国总统选举的安全港期限和足够的州已经证明他们的选举结果，以确定当选总统。鉴于此，我们将开始删除今天（或之后）任何时候上载的任何误导人们的内容，这些内容指称广泛的欺诈或错误改变了2020年美国总统大选的结果，这与我们对美国历史性总统大选的态度一致。例如，我们将删除影片声称总统候选人在大选中获胜，由于广泛的软件故障或计数错误。我们将从今天开始执行这项政策，并将在接下来的几周内逐步加强。与往常一样，如果有足够的教育，纪录片，科学或艺术背景，有关这些问题的新闻报道和评论可以保留在我们的网站上。

将人们与权威信息联系起来

尽管观看时间中只有一小部分是与选举相关的内容，但YouTube仍然是选举新闻的重要来源。与选举相关的前10个搜索结果中，平均有88％的视频来自权威新闻来源（其余新闻包括深夜新闻，创作者视频和评论）。观看次数最多的频道和视频来自NBC和CBS等新闻频道。

我们还展示了与Google的选举结果功能（可从美联社获取选举结果）以及网络安全与基础设施安全局（CISA）的“谣言控制”页面相关联的信息面板，这些信息用于揭穿选举完整性错误信息，还有其他信息，还有200,000与选举相关的视频。这些信息面板总共显示超过45亿次。从今天开始，我们将更新此信息面板，连接从联邦注册办公室的“2020选举团结果”页面，并指出，由于12月8日，国家已认证的总统选举结果，与拜登为总统当选人。它还将继续包含指向CISA的链接，

此外，自选举日以来，来自第三方事实检查员的有关事实检查信息面板的触发次数比有关选举相关的搜索结果高200,000倍，其中包括针对“ Dominion投票机”和“密歇根州重新计票”等选民欺诈言论。

现在，让我们来看一下推荐，这是观众发现内容的主要方式之一。限制边界内容的范围并突出显示权威信息是我们保护人们免受不违反我们的社区准则的有问题内容的重要方式。超过70％的与选举相关主题的推荐来自权威新闻来源，而与选举有关的内容推荐最多的视频和频道主要是权威新闻。实际上，与选举相关内容的前十大权威新闻频道相比，前十大权威新闻频道的推荐率高14倍以上。

尽管取得了令人鼓舞的结果，但我们认识到还有很多事情要做。例如，尽管有问题的错误信息仅占美国YouTube观看量的1％，但我们知道我们可以将这一数字进一步降低。而且，尽管在YouTube上不推荐使用某些视频，但它们仍继续获得较高的观看次数，有时来自其他网站。在不断改进的过程中，我们将继续考虑这一挑战和其他新挑战。

我们知道有必要对与选举有关的工作进行严格审查。我们的团队努力工作，以确保在广泛的政治演讲与确保我们的平台不被滥用以煽动现实世界的伤害或广泛传播有害的错误信息之间取得平衡。我们欢迎正在进行的辩论和讨论，并将继续与专家，研究人员和组织合作，以确保我们的政策和产品能够实现该目标。一如既往，我们会将这次选举的经验教训应用到我们为保护全球选举的完整性所做的持续努力中。

YouTube’s move to censor political speech comes as President Trump is threatening to veto the military appropriations bill over the failure of Congress to repeal the Section 230 law that protects Internet platforms like YouTube from being treated like publishers.

Excerpt from the announcement:

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Yesterday was the safe harbor deadline for the U.S. Presidential election and enough states have certified their election results to determine a President-elect. Given that, we will start removing any piece of content uploaded today (or anytime after) that misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, in line with our approach towards historical U.S. Presidential elections. For example, we will remove videos claiming that a Presidential candidate won the election due to widespread software glitches or counting errors. We will begin enforcing this policy today, and will ramp up in the 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.

Complete announcement:

Supporting the 2020 U.S. election

Updates to our work supporting the integrity of the 2020 U.S. election.

Over the past weeks and months, we’ve seen people coming to YouTube to learn more about where and how to vote or learning more about a candidate or an issue. We’ve seen news organizations grow their audience. And we’ve seen people turn to YouTube for the latest election results or simply to follow an historic event with the highest voting turnout in over a century in the U.S.

Our main goal going into the election season was to make sure we’re connecting people with authoritative information, while also limiting the reach of misinformation and removing harmful content. The work here is ongoing and we wanted to provide an update.

Removing content that violates our policies

Our Community Guidelines prohibit spam, scams, or other manipulated media, coordinated influence operations, and any content that seeks to incite violence. Since September, we’ve terminated over 8000 channels and thousands of harmful and misleading elections-related videos for violating our existing policies. Over 77% of those removed videos were taken down before they had 100 views.

We also work to make sure that the line between what is removed and what is allowed is drawn in the right place. Our policies prohibit misleading viewers about where and how to vote. We also disallow content alleging widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of a historical U.S. Presidential election. However in some cases, that has meant allowing controversial views on the outcome or process of counting votes of a current election as election officials have worked to finalize counts.

Yesterday was the safe harbor deadline for the U.S. Presidential election and enough states have certified their election results to determine a President-elect. Given that, we will start removing any piece of content uploaded today (or anytime after) that misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, in line with our approach towards historical U.S. Presidential elections. For example, we will remove videos claiming that a Presidential candidate won the election due to widespread software glitches or counting errors. We will begin enforcing this policy today, and will ramp up in the 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.

Connecting people to authoritative information

While only a small portion of watch time is election-related content, YouTube continues to be an important source of election news. On average 88% of the videos in top 10 search results related to elections came from authoritative news sources (amongst the rest are things like newsy late-night shows, creator videos and commentary). And the most viewed channels and videos are from news channels like NBC and CBS.

We also showed information panels linking both to Google’s election results feature, which sources election results from The Associated Press, and to the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) “Rumor Control” page for debunking election integrity misinformation, alongside these and over 200,000 other election-related videos. Collectively, these information panels have been shown over 4.5 billion times. Starting today, we will update this information panel, linking to the “2020 Electoral College Results” page from the Office of the Federal Register, noting that as of December 8, states have certified Presidential election results, with Joe Biden as the President-elect. It will also continue to include a link to CISA, explaining that states certify results after ensuring ballots are properly counted and correcting irregularities and errors.

Additionally, since Election Day, relevant fact check information panels, from third party fact checkers, were triggered over 200,000 times above relevant election-related search results, including for voter fraud narratives such as “Dominion voting machines” and “Michigan recount.”

Now let’s look at recommendations, one of the main ways our viewers find content. Limiting the reach of borderline content and prominently surfacing authoritative information are important ways we protect people from problematic content that doesn’t violate our Community Guidelines. Over 70% of recommendations on election-related topics came from authoritative news sources and the top recommended videos and channels for election-related content were primarily authoritative news. In fact, the top 10 authoritative news channels were recommended over 14X more than the top 10 non-authoritative channels on election-related content.

Despite these encouraging results, we recognize there’s always more to do. For example, while problematic misinformation represents a fraction of 1% of what’s watched on YouTube in the U.S., we know we can bring that number down even more. And some videos, while not recommended prominently on YouTube, continue to get high views, sometimes coming from other sites. We’re continuing to consider this and other new challenges as we make ongoing improvements.

We understand the need for intense scrutiny on our elections-related work. Our teams work hard to ensure we are striking a balance between allowing for a broad range of political speech and making sure our platform isn’t abused to incite real-world harm or broadly spread harmful misinformation. We welcome ongoing debate and discussion and will keep engaging with experts, researchers and organizations to ensure that our policies and products are meeting that goal. And as always, we’ll apply learnings from this election to our ongoing efforts to protect the integrity of elections around the world.

    美国德州众议员巴宾伟大提案

       “活人才能投票”法案

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