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YouTube announces updates to its elections misinformation policy, allowing content related to past U.S. presidential elections to remain, citing the importance of political speech.
Dealing with now? if you're not a disciplined person making sure you weren't seeking out, right, information just because it agrees with what you believe, you can fall pray to disinformation easily. >> that's right. this is the new thing. the disinformation proliferation. you know, we've had partisan media before although not on the scale and scope we've been dealing with in recent decades but what is happening in the last several years is the added alloy of a social media alga rhythm that elevate and exacerbate and reward conflict, conspiracy theories, extremism and that's one of the things t...
Sometimes this economic. the squeezing of the middle class, the gaps in regional economies as well. former steel mill cities falling on hard times for decades and decades and a major irritant in the culture war issues because the page of change is too far and this is a global dynamic by the way. we've seen nativest forces in brexit out of the e.u. we've seen china and russia try to say there is an alternative to democracy in part by appealing to the same forces. the backlash to globalization unleashed challenges internally and externally than we're dealing with now? >> if you're not a discipli...