YouTube pulled down a video posted on Friday by a congressional committee investigating last year’s attack on the US Capitol because it contained election misinformation spread by then-President Donald Trump.
“Our election integrity policy prohibits material advancing false claims that widespread fraud, errors or malpractices changed the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election, if it does not provide sufficient context.” youtube Spokesperson Ivy Choi said in response to AFP’s investigation.
“We apply our policies equally to all, and have removed videos uploaded by the Committee on January 6th.”
The committee, which is in the middle of a series of public hearings investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the seat of the US government, sought to overturn the results of the presidential election. Trump’s The party did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
YouTube did not specify which video was taken on the channel, but media reports indicated that the nixed clip contained baseless claims challenging the integrity of the election by Trump.
Congressional investigators and former administration aides said Thursday that Trump pressured his vice president Mike Pence to go along with an illegal plot to reverse the 2020 US election and kill a mob that threatened his deputy’s life. put in danger.
The committee investigating the attack went on to detail how the former president reprimanded Pence for not going through with the plan – both described as illegal – even after being told the violence had erupted because Congressional Democrat Joe Biden meeting was held to certify the victory of
In its third public hearing in the rebellion, the panel detailed Trump’s “relentless” pressure campaign on Pence – as a cornerstone of a criminal conspiracy to keep the defeated president in power.
The committee says Trump’s pursuit of this plan led to violence at the Capitol, which was linked to at least five deaths.