YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation::When it comes to articles on a website like CleanTechnica, there are two kinds of articles. First, there are the … [continued]

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    YouTube’s loaded with disinformation about everything. Especially egregious are the awful ads YouTube runs about scammy health cures and devices.

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      Which is why we need downvote buttons by default for those videos. People say it’s unnecessary, but you at least have to let the upvotes go to zero if there are that many downvotes.

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        We need laws that make it illegal to disinform people for profit.

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          There are, and have been, but Republicans constantly work to repeal them, calling it ‘deregulation’.

          Businesses would sell you cyanide and call it a weight-loss miracle cure if the laws didn’t prevent it.