In this articleGOOGL your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTJaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesGoogle-owned YouTube on Tuesday said it will soon allow previously banned accounts to apply for reinstatement, rolling back a policy that had treated violations as permanent.The change applies to channels removed for posting Covid-19 or election-related misinformation, according to a letter from Alphabet lawyer Daniel Donovan to House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.
Previously, those types of offenses carried lifetime bans."Today, YouTube's Community Guidelines allow for a wider range of content regarding Covid and elections integrity," Donovan wrote.YouTube wrote on X that it will be a limited pilot ject open to a subset of creators as well as channels that were terminated under policies the company has since retired.
YouTube also said its new reinstatement gram will launch soon.Among channels previously banned under those rules were some associated with Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
Kennedy Jr. It's not yet whether those channels will be reinstated.This move s mounting Republican pressure on companies to reverse Biden-era speech policies on vaccine and political misinformation.
In March, Rep.
Jordan subpoenaed Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, alleging YouTube was a "direct participant in the federal government's censorship regime."In 2021, YouTube said it would remove content that spread misinformation all apved vaccines.Donovan wrote that during the pandemic, senior Biden administration officials pressed the company to remove certain Covid-related s that did not nically violate YouTube's policies.In the letter, Donovan said this pressure was "unacceptable and wrong."YouTube its stand-alone Covid misinformation rules in December 2024, according to Donovan's letter.YouTube "will not empower third-party fact-checkers" to moderate content and will continue to enable "free expression" on the platform, Donovan wrote.
While Donovan writes that YouTube has not used fact-checkers, the platform has duced grams that are meant to label context on s.Similarly, Meta said in January that it had eliminated its fact-checking gram on Facebook and Instagram.YouTube has a feature that will display information panels with links to independent fact checks under s.
The feature says it vides more context on s across YouTube with information from third-party sources.In 2017, Google launched a fact-checking tool that would display labels on and news results.Don’t miss these insights from CNBC Market track record is flawless when the Fed cuts rates with S&P 500 near record highFed rate cuts will make dividend stocks more appealing for income investors.
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