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YouTube lifts suspension of Donald Trump’s channel

YouTube lifts suspension of Donald Trump’s channel

The suspension of the former president’s channel came less than a week after he praised and encouraged a mob of supporters who attacked the US Capitol.

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After more than two years, Youtube lifted the suspension donald trumpthe former president was banned from major internet platforms in the wake of the riots on January 6, 2021 at the US Capitol.

“As of today, Donald J. Trump’s channel is no longer restricted and you can upload new content”, YouTube said in a statement on Friday. “We carefully assess the continued risk of violence in the real world, while balancing the chance that voters will hear equally from major national candidates in the run-up to an election.”

Trump, who has repeatedly and falsely claimed that he won the 2020 election, is seeking the Republican nomination for the 2024 US presidential election.

YouTube added that the “Trump’s channel will continue to be subject to our policies, just like any other channel on YouTube”. The channel currently has 2.64 million subscribers. The most recent videos uploaded (January 12, 2021) are clips from OANN’s (One America News Network) far-right coverage of a Trump press conference at the Texas-Mexico border wall.

On January 12, 2021, YouTube said it determined that Trump’s channel violated the site’s policy against incitement to violence, and the video giant suspended his channel for an indeterminate period. The YouTube suspension of the former president’s channel came less than a week after he praised and encouraged a mob of supporters who stormed the US Capitol on January 6 to disrupt the certification of the president’s election victory. Biden.

last fall, Elon Musk reinstated Trump’s Twitter account and, more recently, Meta allowed him to return to Facebook and Instagram. Trump has claimed that he will remain exclusively on Truth Social, the Twitter copycat app launched about a year ago.

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