{"id":1398,"date":"2025-10-09T22:11:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T18:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/youtube-opens-second-chance-program-to-creators-banned-for-misinformation\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T22:11:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T18:11:33","slug":"youtube-opens-second-chance-program-to-creators-banned-for-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/youtube-opens-second-chance-program-to-creators-banned-for-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube opens \u2018second chance\u2019 program to creators banned for misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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YouTube is now giving some creators who were banned for spreading covid and election misinformation a chance to make a new channel, according to a blog post<\/a>. Under political pressure, the company had said last month<\/a> that it was going to set up this pilot program for \u201ca subset of creators\u201d and \u201cchannels terminated for policies that have been deprecated.\u201d YouTube said in a letter to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH)<\/a>, whose congressional commission issued multiple subpoenas to the company, that the opportunity would be available to creators banned for \u201crepeated violations of COVID-19 and elections integrity policies that are no longer in effect.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2020, YouTube announced that it would remove videos with covid vaccine misinformation<\/a> and later expanded its policies to ban vaccine misinformation<\/a>. After the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol, YouTube also said it would give a strike<\/a> to channels spreading 2020 election misinformation and suspended President Trump from making new uploads<\/a>. But the company lifted the restrictions on Trump\u2019s account<\/a> and dropped some of its covid misinformation policies<\/a> in 2023, and it recently loosened its content moderation policies more broadly<\/a> to \u201creflect the new types of discussion and content\u201d it sees on the platform.<\/p>\n

\u201cYouTube continues to enable a diversity of perspectives and believes creators should be able to openly debate political ideas on the platform,\u201d the company said in its letter to Rep. Jordan.<\/p>\n

Last month, YouTube also said<\/a> it would pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump in 2021 over the ban. $22 million of the settlement is set to be used to help build a new White House ballroom<\/a>. Its parent company, Alphabet, had lawyers in court<\/a> earlier this month defending its Google ad-tech monopoly against Trump\u2019s Department of Justice.<\/p>\n

The new pilot program kicks off today and will roll out to \u201celigible creators\u201d over the \u201cnext several weeks,\u201d YouTube says. \u201cWe\u2019ll consider several factors when evaluating requests for new channels, like whether the creator committed particularly severe or persistent violations of our Community Guidelines or Terms of Service, or whether the creator\u2019s on- or off-platform activity harmed or may continue to harm the YouTube community.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pilot won\u2019t be available if you were banned for copyright infringement or for violating YouTube\u2019s Creator Responsibility policies<\/a>, the company says. If you deleted your YouTube channel or Google account, you won\u2019t be able to request a new channel \u201cat this time.\u201d And YouTube notes that if your channel has been banned, you won\u2019t be eligible to apply for a new one until one year after it was terminated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know many terminated creators deserve a second chance \u2014 YouTube has evolved and changed over the past 20 years, and we\u2019ve had our share of second chances to get things right with our community too,\u201d YouTube says. \u201cOur goal is to roll this out to creators who are eligible to apply over the coming months, and we appreciate the patience as we ramp up, carefully review requests, and learn as we go.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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