YouTube and TikTok rarely act on climate misinformation, even when it breaks their own rules - Science Feedback
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A joint investigation by Science Feedback and Fundación Maldita.es reported more than 300 climate misinformation videos in French and Spanish. YouTube never answered, and TikTok restricted only a small minority of them and overturned none of its decisions on appeal.
  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    282·
    2 days ago

    Shit gets taken down on YouTube all the time. Did the investigators try filing a copyright claim or using a shady lawyer to threaten legal action? How about reaching out to one of the many for-profit organizations with an inside track on YouTube claims processing to expedite the shut down?

    I guess, the real question I’m asking is… how much money did they spend issuing these notices? Because I guarantee a better-financed operation could have gotten it done.

    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      17·
      2 days ago

      There’s no federal law about disinformation that puts platforms at any kind of financial risk.

      And you have it exactly backwards. DMCA takedowns are trivially easy to make and expensive to reverse.

      • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        2 days ago

        So lie. Call in a copyright claim. It will just work.

        You may have to pay a large copyright holder to send in the requests for you. But if you payed Sony or Paramount enough money, I bet they’d call in those requests.