YouTube to remove content violating policies irrespective of how it was created

YouTube labels, removes, or de-amplifies content based on the nature and impact of misinformation, the online video-sharing platform’s director and global head of responsibility Timothy Katz has said. Any content violating policies, irrespective of how it was created, will be removed from the platform, he added.

“All content identified as misinformation may or may not violate our content policies. … If you want to, say, upload a video that no human has ever landed on the moon before, we think that is probably a video that should be allowed to be on YouTube because there is no risk of egregious real-world harm… But that does not mean we want to recommend that content. …But there might be … misinformation about when or how to vote that does have [an] egregious role and consequences. That would be something that we would want to remove from the platform. …it depends on the nature of the type of content.”