YouTube has banned the platforming of former President Donald Trump’s full 2021 CPAC speech from their platform, unless users add “countervailing viewpoints” about Trump’s refuted elections claims to their post.
YouTube spokeswoman Ivy Choi told The Daily Wire that the video violated their “presidential election integrity policy,” which was implemented on December 9.
“On December 9, we started applying our Presidential Election Integrity policy (below) to the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, meaning we remove content that misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election uploaded on or after December 9,” Google Support detailed. “We have begun issuing strikes for new content that violates the policy uploaded on or after January 7, 2021.”
Under “Presidential Election Integrity,” the site stated: “Content that advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches changed the outcome of any past U.S. presidential election (Note: this applies to elections in the United States only). For the U.S. 2020 presidential election, this applies to content uploaded on or after December 9, 2020.”
After being notified that RSBN’s video was removed, The Daily Wire asked YouTube about two other streams: SkyNews’ video, which hosts nearly the entirety of Trump’s 2021 speech, and NewsNOW from FOX’s video, which shows the entirety of the speech.
Notably, both videos add moments of commentary at the end of the streams emphasizing that Trump did not win the 2020 presidential election, a refutation of his claim during the speech that he might run again and “win” for the “third time.”
Choi told The Daily Wire the videos from SkyNews and NewsNOW from FOX do not violate their Community Guidelines, though YouTube declined multiple times to identify where RSBN’s video of the speech violated the guidance.
“On background, the two videos you shared with us do not violate our Community Guidelines,” Choi said. “As I shared in my statement, content featuring footage from CPAC 2021 that contains sufficient educational, documentary, scientific and artistic context remains on YouTube.
When The Daily Wire reached out to RSBN about the video removal and the ban, their claims aligned with what appears to be the YouTube standard on allegations: compelled speech refuting claims about widespread election fraud must be added in order to platform Trump’s 2021 full CPAC speech.
“Our video was removed because we refused to give ‘countervailing viewpoints’ following Trump’s speech,” the outlet told The Daily Wire. “Essentially they wanted us to go on air after he was done with his speech and ‘push back’ against his claims of election fraud.”
In a post published on Mar. 4, the outlet reported that they had been “suspended from YouTube for two weeks, with live streaming and the ability to upload new videos revoked. YouTube has also removed the video from their platform, which at last check was approaching nearly four million views.”
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