YouTube said it's lifting a more than two-year ban on the account of Donald Trump, allowing the former president's channel to upload new content.
Trump, who is seeking the GOP presidential nomination in 2024, has more than 2.6 million subscribers on his YouTube account.
- Google-owned YouTube initially imposed the restriction shortly after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots.
- While
Trump's channel remained on the platform, YouTube barred the account
from uploading new videos and deleted certain videos for violating its
policies against inciting violence.
- The platform is restoring
the ability today after carefully weighing a "continued risk" of
violence versus the chance for voters to hear equally from major
political candidates prior to the election, YouTube's vice president of
public policy Leslie Miller said.
- The channel will be subject to YouTube's policies, like any other channel, he added.
- Meta reinstated Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts earlier this year after determining that the public safety risk had “sufficiently receded."
- In November, Twitter restored Trump's account, which was also banned in January 2021.
- As of Friday, Trump had yet to post anything on the aforementioned platforms, preferring to use his Truth Social platform instead.
