Overview

• YouTube confirmed it terminated newly created channels tied to Alex Jones and Nick Fuentes within hours, citing its rule that previously terminated users cannot create or use new channels.
• The company stated on X that the much-discussed reinstatement effort has not begun and will launch as a limited pilot with eligibility details to come.
• Alphabet, in a letter shared by Rep. Jim Jordan, committed to offering a pathway for some creators removed for repeated violations of now-retired COVID-19 and election-integrity rules.
• Jordan publicly framed the plan as allowing “ALL” such creators to return, a characterization news outlets note exceeds YouTube’s narrower, conditional description.
• Jones was removed in 2018 for violations including hate speech and child endangerment, and Fuentes was banned in 2020 for hate speech, which may place them outside any eventual eligibility.