YouTube reinstates those banned because of the fake news on the 2020 elections and COVID.
During the Biden administration we saw social media (acting on government pressure) banning folks who questioned the 2020 elections and the Tony the Fauch junk science. We know that twitter(X) was the first to reinstate folks. Now YouTube has followed.
YouTube states:
“Senior Biden Administration officials, including White House officials, conducted repeated and sustained outreach to Alphabet and pressed the Company regarding certain user-generated content related to the COVID-19 pandemic that did not violate its policies. While the Company continued to develop and enforce its policies independently, Biden Administration officials continued to press the Company to remove non-violative user-generated content.”
“As online platforms…grappled with these decisions, the Administration’s officials, including President Biden, created a political atmosphere that sought to influence the actions of platforms based on their concerns regarding misinformation.”
“It is unacceptable and wrong when any government, including the Biden Administration, attempt to dictate how the Company moderates content, and the Company has consistently fought against those efforts on First Amendment grounds.”
