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YouTube will reinstate accounts banned for spreading misinformation


"YouTube values conservative voices on its platform and recognizes that these creators have extensive reach and play an important role in civic discourse," the company's legal counsel 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. Twitter, not yet bought and rebranded by Elon Musk, said that it suspended 70,000 accounts for sharing QAnon conspiracy content and inciting violence in the week after the January 6 riots.

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