> Its also deeply hypocritical to claim that this is "in line with [Google's] approach towards historical U.S. Presidential elections.

Indeed.

I was told by all the right people that Russia hacked the 2016 election for 4 years.

To this day, Stacy Abrams acts like she's governor of Georgia and claims the election was stolen.

All of that content will not be taken down.

But yes, given the fact that 1) "safe harbor" means nothing historically, 2) there have been electoral contests in the U.S. decided within days of inauguration, and 3) there is active litigation being pursued, this chilling of speech can't be seen as anything other that Google pushing their hands on the scale here.