Google, like Meta before it, has made what appears to be a strategic decision to bend the knee to the Trump administration and Republican leadership. In a letter addressed to the US House Judiciary Committee and released by Chairman Jim Jordan, the company claimed that the Biden administration attempted to pressure it to remove content that didn’t explicitly violate its content policies. To rectify the situation, the company committed to allowing users who had their YouTube accounts terminated over things like COVID-19 misinformation and denial of the results of the 2020 presidential election a path to return to the platform.In the letter—which was signed by Dan Donovan, an attorney representing Google and YouTube parent company Alphabet—the company claimed that, during the coronavirus pandemic, the company experienced the Biden administration breathing down its neck. Is YouTube starting to act “right” ?
