{"id":1268,"date":"2025-09-24T03:43:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T23:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/youtube-will-let-creators-who-spread-covid-misinformation-back-on-the-site\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T03:43:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T23:43:40","slug":"youtube-will-let-creators-who-spread-covid-misinformation-back-on-the-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/youtube-will-let-creators-who-spread-covid-misinformation-back-on-the-site\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube will let creators who spread covid misinformation back on the site"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/acastro_STK092_02.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Google has announced it will reverse a major content moderation decision: YouTube will offer channels that were banned for spreading covid and election misinformation in 2020 a pathway back onto the platform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/republicans-judiciary.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/2025-09-23-letter-to-hjc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In a letter sent to the House Judiciary Committee<\/a>, Alphabet&rsquo;s lawyers claimed that the Biden administration had previously \u00ab\u00a0pressed the Company\u00a0\u00bb to remove user-generated Covid-19 content that had not violated Alphabet&rsquo;s policies, and that the \u00ab\u00a0political atmosphere\u00a0\u00bb had forced their hand. \u00ab\u00a0It is unacceptable and wrong when any government, including the Biden Administration, attempts to dictate how the Company moderates content,\u00a0\u00bb they wr \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/784238\/youtube-covid-election-misinformation-reversal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced it will reverse a major content moderation decision: YouTube will offer channels that were banned for spreading 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