YouTube will prohibit banned accounts to spread wrong information

YouTube will allow creators whose accounts have been completed for repeated violations of Covid-19 and election safety policies to join the platform, according to He hasR.Tale The mother YouTube company, which ALPHABET sent to Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Tuesday.

“The reflecting the company’s commitment to the expression of freedom of expression, YouTube will provide an opportunity for all creators to join the platform if the company ends their channels due to repeated violations of Covid-19 and the election integrity policies that are no longer valid,” wrote the legal advisor at Alphabet Daniel F. Donovan. “YouTube appreciates the voices of maintaining its platform and realizes that these creators have broad access and play an important role in civil discourse.”

This message was a response to a call MP, who sought to investigate whether the Biden Harris administration had “coercive or collusion” with companies such as the alphabet to monitor Khattab.

At the beginning of the Covid-19s, many social platforms such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter have enacted policies to prohibit the spread of medical information about Virus and Vaccines. For example, YouTube content has not been allowed that vaccines can cause cancer, which is a wrong claim Unaccounted by Scientific research.

Later, platforms also took action against content falsely that the 2020 US presidential elections “stole” Donald Trump. Twitter, who has not yet been bought and renamed by Elon Musk, said it was suspended 70,000 accounts To share Qanon conspiracy content and incite violence in the following week of riots in January 6.

But before the presidential elections in 2024, online platforms began to alleviate their policies on wrong information. On YouTube, this included the return of President Donald Trump, whose account was Prohibited After the January 6 attack due to the breaking of the rules on inciting violence. The platform was also returned Robert F. Kennedy JuniorWhich became the Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services.

Now, according to the company’s message to MP Jordan, all creators whose accounts have been subjected to these policies will be allowed on the platform.

The company wrote: “Although relying on health authorities in this context was goodwill, the company realizes that it should never come at the expense of the general debate on these important issues.”

YouTube did not respond to the Techcrunch request for comment.