<ul><li>YouTube is adopting a lighter-touch approach to content moderation, allowing more potentially inflammatory content to remain up in the 'public interest.'</li><li>The platform's content moderators have new guidelines and training to handle provocative content, prompting them to be more cautious in removing videos.</li><li>YouTube is now recommending its moderators to bring issues to managers if they are uncertain about content removal, instead of removing it themselves.</li><li>The platform is increasing the exception cutoff for removing videos, with a focus on topics like elections, race, gender, and censorship.</li></ul>

YouTube will “protect free expression” by pulling back on content moderation

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