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by cycloptic 2024 days ago
If you mean something broader than this Youtube policy then it's not clear what campaign you're referring to. Certain types of misinformation/disinformation are already considered torts because they do cause harm, e.g. defamation/slander/libel. Continuing the metaphor, in the case of Youtube it appears that among other things they don't want to host videos of people encouraging others to make prank 911 calls because it causes lawsuits, bad press and lost profits in addition to it being illegal in a lot of places.