YouTube Pulls US Capitol Riot Probe Video to Stop ‘Election Misinformation’

YouTube on Friday pulled a video posted by the congressional committee probing final yr’s assault on the US Capitol as a result of it contained election misinformation unfold by then president Donald Trump.

“Our election integrity policy prohibits content advancing false claims that widespread fraud, errors or glitches changed the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election, if it does not provide sufficient context,” YouTube spokesperson Ivy Choi stated in response to an AFP inquiry.

“We enforce our policies equally for everyone, and have removed the video uploaded by the January 6th Committee channel.”

The committee, which is in the course of a sequence of public hearings investigating the assault on the seat of US authorities on January 6, 2021 in a bid to overturn the presidential election ends in Trump’s favor, didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. 

YouTube didn’t specify which video was taken down on the channel, however media experiences indicated the nixed clip contained Trump making baseless claims difficult the integrity of the election.

Trump pressured his vp Mike Pence to go together with an unlawful plot to overturn the 2020 US election and whipped up a mob that put his deputy’s life at risk when he refused, congressional investigators and former administration aides stated Thursday.

The committee probing the assault detailed how the previous president berated Pence for not going together with the scheme each knew to be illegal – even after being instructed violence had erupted as Congress was assembly to certify Democrat Joe Biden’s victory.

At its third public listening to into the revolt, the panel detailed a “relentless” stress marketing campaign by Trump on Pence – as cornerstone of a legal conspiracy to maintain the defeated president in energy.

The committee maintains that Trump’s pursuit of this scheme led to the violence on the Capitol, which was linked to no less than 5 deaths.