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YouTube further responded to Wednesday’s attack on the U.S. Capitol by moving up the end of a grace period for videos containing misinformation about the election results.
The Google-owned video site joined Facebook and Twitter in removing a video Wednesday in which outgoing President Donald Trump mixed in baseless claims about election fraud with a light push to protestors to go home.
In a series of tweets Thursday, YouTube said its grace period for the removal without penalty of posts that broke its rules on spreading misinformation about widespread voter fraud, which was originally set for Inauguration Day, had ended effective immediately, meaning that all accounts, including Trump’s, are now subject to its strike system for violations.
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