Google has indicated that it plans to restore YouTube content creators who were banned for violating the platform’s past political speech policies, the House Judiciary Committee announced on Tuesday.
Under the Biden administration, Google targeted conservative accounts for covering politically divisive topics, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 presidential election.
A lawyer for Google’s parent company admitted the Biden administration exerted its executive authority, pressuring the tech company to censor people and remove certain content in a new letter to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
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“Senior Biden Administration officials, including White House officials, conducted repeated and sustained outreach to Alphabet and pressed the Company regarding certain user-generated content related to the COVID-19 pandemic that did not violate its policies,”
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