YouTube Reverses Ban of Watchdog Group Right Wing Watch

RWW’s YouTube account was “mistakenly” suspended, a YouTube rep told TheWrap

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YouTube on Monday overturned its suspension of Right Wing Watch, hours after the Google-owned video giant had booted the watchdog group from its platform.

A Youtube spokesperson told TheWrap the group was “mistakenly suspended,” but declined to share more details on how the mistake was made.

Earlier on Monday, RWW’s Twitter account posted screenshots of the suspension notices from YouTube, which said the channel had violated community guidelines.

“Our efforts to expose the bigoted view and dangerous conspiracy theories spread by right-wing activists has now resulted in @YouTube banning our channel and removing thousands of our videos.

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