YouTube removes a number of movies posted on Trump’s channel

Image Source : AP YouTube removes a number of movies posted on Trump’s channel
 YouTube has eliminated a number of movies that US President Donald Trump has posted on his channel and warned that any channel discovered to be posting 3 times inside 90 days with false claims on US election outcomes shall be completely faraway from the Google-owned video platform.

The transfer comes within the wake of the unprecedented storming of the US Capitol by Trump’s supporters on Wednesday and thus disrupting the constitutional means of counting and certification of the Electoral College votes of the presidential elections. Four individuals, together with a lady, died within the clashes between protesters and police.

“Over the last month, we’ve removed thousands of videos which spread misinformation claiming widespread voter fraud changed the result of the 2020 election, including several videos that President Trump posted on Wednesday to his channel,” Google mentioned in a press release.

“Due to the disturbing events that transpired on Wednesday, and given that the election results have been certified, any channel posting new videos with these false claims in violation of our policies will now receive a strike, a penalty which temporarily restricts uploading or live-streaming,” it mentioned.

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“Channels that receive three strikes in the same 90-day period will be permanently removed from YouTube,” Google mentioned in its assertion.

Trump’s YouTube channel has 2.68 million subscribers. Following the violence that erupted on the US Capitol after his supporters stormed the constructing, YouTube has eliminated most of his movies from the rally he addressed earlier within the day.

YouTube believes that these movies alleging widespread fraud within the 2020 elections violated its insurance policies.

YouTube mentioned that grace interval was alleged to expire on January 21, after Inauguration Day. But because the election outcomes have been licensed, after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, the Google -owned video platform says it is ending the grace interval now.

Earlier, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg mentioned that President Donald Trump’s accounts on its widespread social media platforms – Facebook and Instagram – would stay suspended till the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden on January 20.

Announcing the choice, Zuckerberg mentioned the danger of permitting President Trump to proceed to make use of the platform throughout this era is “simply too great.” This is for the primary time most likely that Facebook has taken such an excessive step to ban and block the social media handles of a head of the State and that too of the United States.

On Wednesday, Twitter additionally blocked Trump’s account for 12 hours and eliminated three of his tweets together with a video.
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