On YouTube, many Spanish-language videos pushing the myth that the 2020 U.S. presidential election was stolen are still up, despite the platform having explicit policies prohibiting this and having pledged to work with lawmakers on the issue of Spanish misinformation. If YouTube does not start to address this content in earnest, we could easily see another wave of Spanish election misinformation on the platform this midterm cycle.
The platform – which has a track record of allowing questionable content slide in its Spanish-language videos – had previously promised to suspend channels that promoted voter fraud content following the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
Media Matters has identified a number of YouTube videos — posted both in the lead up to the Capitol attack and in the past year — that spread a variety of election conspiracy theories, from fraudulent ballots to voting machine errors. Many of the videos violate YouTube’s election misinformation policies.
Some Spanish-language videos from our review were given a banner (without explicitly stating that the video is misinformative) with a link to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency or The Bipartisan Policy Center website, while others were not given a banner at all — indicating that even minimal content moderation efforts have been inconsistent.
The voter fraud myth has been repeatedly debunked, and these channels are explicitly violating YouTube’s misinformation policies by promoting it.
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