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YouTube this week These trends may prove disastrous for the 2024 elections, and for the health of democracy at large, said Imran Ahmed, chief executive officer of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a non-profit that fights misinformation. “This is fundamentally dangerous,” he said. “American democracy itself cannot survive wave after wave of disinformation that seeks to undermine democracy, consensus and further polarizes the public.” YouTube this week reversed a policy banning content that casts doubt on previous election results. Specifically, the platform will no longer remove content that “advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections”. The policy was instituted in December 2020, when Trump and his supporters sought to delegitimize the election results – a narrative that culminated in the storming of the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. Under the rules, Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6 as they believed the election was ‘stolen’. Photograph: Leah Millis/Reuters YouTube said in a statement on its decision that leaving the policy in place risked “curtailing political speech without meaningfully reducing the risk of violence or other real-world harm”. “When we craft our policies, we always keep two goals in mind: protecting our community, and providing a home for open discussion and debate,” it said in a blogpost announcing the decision. “These goals are sometimes in ...

Notes • All times ET. • Not all candidates are listed. • CNN will broadcast a projected winner only after an extensive review of data from a number of sources. • "Flipped seat" denotes a race where the 2020 projected winner is from a different party than the previous winner or incumbent. • Both Maine and Nebraska allow electoral votes to be split. In Maine, two of four electoral votes go to the statewide winner and one electoral vote goes to the winner in each of the two congressional districts. In Nebraska, two of five electoral votes go to the winner of the statewide vote. One electoral vote goes to the winner in each of Nebraska's three congressional districts.

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Kristen Welker, Geoff Bennett, Mike Memoli and Ali Vitali WILMINGTON, Del. — A senior campaign official for President-Elect Joe Biden confirmed Saturday night that Biden will make good on his longstanding promise to immediately sign a number of executive orders aimed at reversing several of President Donald Trump’s unilateral actions. The Biden will officially launch his transition on Monday and will name his coronavirus task force, which he mentioned in his acceptance speech. “Folks our work begins with getting Covid under control…on Monday I will name a group of leading scientists and experts as transition advisers to help take the Biden-Harris Covid plan and convert it into an action blueprint that will start on January 20th 2021,” Biden said Saturday night. Marianna Sotomayor, Deepa Shivaram, Amanda Golden, Molly Roecker, Elyse Perlmutter-Gumbiner, Gary Grumbach and Winston Wilde contributed to this report. Biden promised the captivated crowd of supporters at his campaign headquarters “to be a president who seeks not to divide, but to unify." "To make progress, we must stop treating our opponents as our enemy. We are not enemies. We are Americans," he said. "This is the time to heal in America," Biden added, amid a chorus of blaring car horns and screams. He vowed to "work with all my heart for the confidence of the whole people. To win the confidence of all people." Biden spoke at a drive-in rally outside the Chase Center on the Riverfront, in Wilmington, Del., where ...

From the outset the norm-shattering presidency of Donald Trump (2017–21) was characterized by competing versions of reality, beginning with Trump’s claim that his inauguration crowd was the largest in history when photographic evidence clearly revealed that was not the case. Soon after presidential adviser All-American History Quiz Before long Trump was at the centre of another scandal. This time he was accused of having pressured the recently elected president of Ukraine to announce that an investigation would be mounted into a debunked allegation that Joe Biden, as U.S. vice president, had advocated for the dismissal of the Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating the Ukrainian energy company Burisma in order to protect Biden’s son Hunter, who had served on the company’s board from 2014 to 2019. It also was The campaign for the 2020 presidential election was profoundly altered by the realities of the global Primaries Despite the sweeping upheaval of American life in 2020, the campaigns for the Republican and Democratic presidential nominations proceeded, The especially crowded field of potential nominees on the Democratic side initially included Steve Bullock, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, Rep. Eric Swalwell of Tulsi Gabbard of Andrew Yang, Sen. Julián Castro, author and spiritualist Marianne Williamson, and Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. While all the Democratic candidates agreed on the necessity of defeating Trump, they lock...

Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., speaks to reporters after the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol held its second public hearing to discuss its findings of a year-long investigation, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on June 13, 2022. Photo by Ken Cedeno/UPI | June 13 (UPI) -- "He went off on a monologue saying that there was now definitive evidence involving fraud through the Dominion machines," Barr said in recorded testimony during the second hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. He called Trump's allegations that there were more ballots than voters in Pennsylvania particularly "rubbish." Byung J. Pak, a former U.S. attorney in Atlanta who investigated voter fraud claims, testified that his office found that a claimed "suitcase full of ballots" in an alleged incident of voter fraud promoted by Trump's supporters was an official lockbox. Trump insisted Pak be fired for not finding any evidence. "The FBI interviewed the people depicted in the videos who purportedly were double, triple-counting of the ballots and determined that nothing irregular happened in the counting and that the allegations made by Mr. [Rudy] Giuliani were false," Pak said. RELATED Barr said that before the election "it was possible to talk sense to the president." "While you sometimes had to engage in a wrestling match with him. ... I felt that after the election, he didn't seem to be listening," he said. Barr also...