""Reflecting the Company's commitment to free expression, YouTube will provide an opportunity for all creators to rejoin the platform if the Company terminated their channels for repeated violations of COVID-19 and elections integrity policies that are no longer in effect," Alphabet's legal counsel Daniel F. Donovan wrote. "YouTube values conservative voices on its platform and recognizes that these creators have extensive reach and play an important role in civic discourse.""
"At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many social platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter enacted policies to ban the spread of medical misinformation about the virus and vaccines. For example, YouTube disallowed content saying that vaccines can cause cancer, a false claim which is not supported by scientific research. Later, platforms also took action against content falsely claiming that the 2020 U.S. presidential election was "stolen" from Donald Trump."
YouTube will allow creators whose accounts were terminated for repeated violations of COVID-19 and election integrity policies that are no longer in effect to rejoin the platform. Alphabet emphasized that YouTube values conservative voices and recognizes those creators' extensive reach and role in civic discourse. Rep. Jim Jordan issued a subpoena to investigate whether the Biden-Harris administration coerced or colluded with companies like Alphabet to censor speech. During the COVID-19 pandemic, major platforms enacted policies to ban medical misinformation and disallowed false claims such as vaccines causing cancer. Platforms also acted against false election claims and suspended accounts tied to QAnon and incitement.
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