December 3, 2019 11:00 am
The national flag flying on the roof of the Parliament House in Singapore | Photo credit should read ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images
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Singapores fake news law should be a warning to American lawmakers
The national flag flying on the roof of the Parliament House in Singapore | Photo credit should read ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images
On Sunday evening, 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl sat down with YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki to voice a now-familiar critique: YouTube allows too many dangerous and disturbing videos to remain on the site. She brings up a distorted video of Rep. Nancy Pelosi that falsely describes her as drunk; altered copies of the Christchurch shooting video, quack science, and misleading political ads, among other questionable videos found on the site. It leads to the following exchange:
Lesley Stahl: The struggle for Wojcicki is policing the site, while keeping YouTube an open platform.
Susan Wojcicki: You can go too far and that can become censorship. And so we have been working really hard to figure out what’s the right way to balance...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/interface/2019/12/3/20991422/singapore-fake-news-law-censorship-politics-usa
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