YouTube to reinstate select channels banned under old misinformation policies

Google has said it will allow YouTube accounts that were banned for spreading Covid and election misinformation in 2020 to apply for reinstatement.

In a letter to the House Judiciary Committee, Alphabet’s (the parent company of Google, which owns YouTube) lawyers claimed that “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”.