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YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content


It could mean a YouTube comeback for prominent conservative voices like Dan Bongino and Steve Bannon.

YouTube's parent company, Alphabet, said in a letter published Tuesday that it intends to "provide an opportunity for all creators to rejoin the platform" whose accounts had been terminated over repeated violations of its COVID-19 and election integrity policies. The letter, written by Alphabet lawyer Daniel Donovan to Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, said that YouTube "values conservative voices on its platform" and recognized their reach and role in civic discourse. Google said it has been testing a feature similar to X's Community Notes to allow people to provide relevant context about its videos, but it "has not and will not empower fact-checkers to take action on or label content" on the platform.

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