YouTube Reinstates Fmr. President Trump's Account

[Webster]

(The Guardian) YouTube reinstates Trump's account
YouTube said today it has lifted restrictions placed on Donald Trump’s channel after the January 6 insurrection:



The popular video sharing site cut off the former president’s ability to post new content after the attack on the Capitol – a restriction it lifted today. It’s the latest instance of tech firms that turned their back on Trump rethinking their policies as he once again runs for president.

Last year, Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk ordered the reactivation of Trump’s account on the platform, which was his defining mouthpiece while in office. Trump has not made any new posts on Twitter since then.

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Some of the last videos Donald Trump posted on his now-reinstated YouTube account feature him insisting the 2020 election was stolen from him.

But the Washington Post reports today that researchers hired by the former president to find evidence that deceased and double voters were the reason for his loss in crucial states turned up little to support those claims. Here’s more from the Post’s report: Researchers paid by Trump’s team had “high confidence” of only nine dead voters in Fulton County, defined as ballots that may have been cast by someone else in the name of a deceased person. They believed there was a “potential statewide exposure” of 23 such votes across the Peach State — or 4,977 fewer than the “minimum” Trump claimed.

In a separate failed bid to overturn the results in Nevada, Trump’s lawyers said in a court filing that 1,506 ballots were cast in the names of dead people and 42,284 voted twice. Trump lost the Silver State by about 33,000 votes.

The researchers paid by Trump’s team had “high confidence” that 12 ballots were cast in the names of deceased people in Clark County, Nev., and believed the “high end potential exposure” was 20 voters statewide — some 1,486 fewer than Trump’s lawyers said.

According to their research, the “low end potential exposure” of double voters was 45, while the “high end potential exposure” was 9,063. The judge tossed the Nevada case even as Trump continued to claim he won the state.

 

[KenDaGamer]

Big mistake on YouTube's part and on social media's part. They better come to their senses and re-ban him.

 

[Webster]

Big mistake on YouTube's part and on social media's part. They better come to their senses and re-ban him.

I'd agree if social media weren't in the habit of playing loose & fast with their ToS and their enforcement of said terms.