YouTube deleted a video clip from the Jan. 6 committee public congressional hearings because it contained comments from former President Donald Trump that violated the platform’s election integrity policy.
According to the New York Times, the clip that ran afoul of YouTube’s policies was uploaded by the committee on Tuesday. It contained testimony of former Attorney General Bill Barr, but also a clip of Trump spreading his election lies on the Fox Business news channel.
In the clip, Trump claimed that there were “glitches” that switched thousands of his votes to President Biden.
The clip that the panel uploaded did not include Barr repeatedly saying Trump’s claims about the election being stolen were wrong.
“Our election integrity policy prohibits content advancing false claims that widespread fraud, errors or glitches changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, if it does not provide sufficient context,” YouTube spokesperson Ivy Choi said in a statement. “We enforce our policies equally for everyone, and have removed the video uploaded by the January 6th Committee channel.”
