I don't understand your argument here. An astonishgly miniscule percent of the population commit crimes as a result of news stories.
Based on your argument, we also shouldn't report on police abuse because people may riot and burn down stores?
I don't think censorship is necessarily the right approach to mitigate this torrent of bullshit, but it's clearly out of control.
There is no "we".
The platform is YouTube. It is their prerogative (and indeed their right to freedom of speech) to host content as they see fit. The Senators are merely asking them to exercise their freedom to a very reasonable extent.
>Based on your argument
I was pointing out how "believing dumb things about politics" is a deliberate minimization of the effect of disinformation.
>An astonishgly miniscule percent of the population commit crimes as a result of news stories.
But an astonishingly large number of people are afraid of vaccines/black people/corona jihad/the deep state pedophile ring because they read something that isn't true. Can you think of any effects this might have had recently? Any you think of anything bad going on that isn't strictly a crime?