http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20230608-111130-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/youtube-updates-its-policy-on-election-misinformation/ YouTube Updates its Policy on Election Misinformation - The platform will no longer remove false claims about past US Presidential elections. Mackenzie-Gray Scott, Richard eng 2023-06-08 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 content moderation election Misinformation Platform Governance Trump Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Last Friday, YouTube announced that it ‘will stop removing content that advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections’. This development has upsides and downsides, a few of which are worth sketching out, and all of which further accentuate why the US constitutional framework regarding online platform regulation requires updating. The nature of this update requires transcending a governance approach of overreliance on expecting good faith self-regulation by companies providing these intermediaries.