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Reddit Revolts + MrBeast’s YouTube Empire + Peak Trust and Safety?

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YouTube's Unintended Effect on Political Speech

YouTube is the most cautious of the platforms. It operates by the sort of Jurassic Park policy, which is that if you don't make any movements, the dinosaurs can't see you. And sure enough, on the Friday before Apple is going to unveil the Vision Pro, YouTube says, oh, by the way, you can lie about the 2020 election now on YouTube. I think they're trying to say something like, look, there could be some valid political speech about whether the 2020 election was stolen and so we would hate to have a point of view on that.

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