Media Matters reviewed Giuliani’s YouTube channel in the two months following WABC’s cancelation of his shows and found that Giuliani spread misinformation about the 2020 and/or 2024 elections on 46 of the 51 days (or 90%) that he livestreamed at least one of his shows. In fact, Giuliani streamed on the platform every weekday, pushing election misinformation on 41 of those 46 days; he also streamed on 5 Sundays, pushing election misinformation all 5 of those days.
Giuliani spread misinformation about the 2020 election on 41 days and misinformation about the 2024 election on 16 days, with at least 11 of the days including misinformation about both the 2020 and 2024 elections.
Giuliani repeatedly pushed claims that vast voter fraud had occurred in several states during the 2020 election — including in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin — and used the claims to imply that there would be similar issues in 2024. Giuliani falsely claimed that “revelations have now come out which makes it clear that the election was stolen,” asserting that, “if we get cowered into not talking about the 2020 election, they're going to feel much more empowered to cheat heavily in 2024.”
In reality, Giuliani's claims of vast voter fraud have been repeatedly debunked by election officials and experts, and even led to his disbarment in New York.
Notably, we found that 18 of the YouTube videos with misinformation were streams listed under the same names of two shows that WABC canceled — The Rudy Giuliani Show and Uncovering the Truth. (Despite the names, the streams we identified have no affiliation with the radio station.) The other 28 videos were streams of America’s Mayor Live.
Media Matters also found 2 monetized livestreams, despite YouTube previously demonetizing Giuliani’s channel. (It is unclear whether YouTube ever reinstated Giuliani to its ad revenue sharing program.) Notably, the ads Media Matters observed on the videos were political ads with Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance.