(Reuters) – YouTube, an Alphabet affiliate, said on Friday it had lifted restrictions on former U.S. President Donald Trump’s channel, following a more than two-year suspension following the deadly 6 January 2021.
“We have carefully assessed the continued risk of real-world violence, while balancing the chance for voters to also hear from key national candidates in the run-up to an election,” reads a tweet sent from the account. Company.
Meta Platforms reinstated Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts earlier this year, while his Twitter account was reinstated in November by the social network’s new owner, Elon Musk.
Donald Trump’s campaign team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The video streaming platform had Trump banned in 2021, after the events on Capitol Hill, for violating its regulations on incitement to violence.
The former president has yet to post a message on Meta-owned platforms or on Twitter. He stuck to Truth Social, a platform he founded in late 2021 that has nearly 5 million users.
(Report Shubham Kalia and Chavi Mehta in Bangalore and Sheila Dang in Dallas, Augustin Turpin, edited by Jean-Stéphane Brosse)
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