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   YouTube reversed its ban of Right Wing Watch, a channel from a liberal   
   advocacy group that posts videos of racism and conspiracy theories   
   promoted by ultra-conservative activists with the idea of exposing them.   
      
   Google-owned YouTube said Tuesday the ban was a mistake, blaming the large   
   volume of videos on its site. YouTube automates much of its content   
   moderation and it said it sometimes makes the wrong call but it tries to   
   act quickly when a video or a channel is mistakenly removed.   
      
   “Right Wing Watch’s YouTube channel was mistakenly suspended, but upon   
   further review, has now been reinstated,” a YouTube spokeswoman told The   
   Post on Tuesday.   
      
   On Monday, Right Wing Watch posted screen shots of suspension notices from   
   YouTube, which said the channel had repeatedly “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. We attempted to appeal this   
   decision, and YouTube rejected it,” Right Wing Watch tweeted.   
      
      
   Hours after the tweet, YouTube reinstated the channel, which has nearly   
   50,000 subscribers.   
      
   Right Wing Watch is a project from People For the American Way, a   
   Washington, DC- based liberal advocacy group founded in 1981. The group   
   had been posting video clips from politicians, preachers and other figures   
   for more than a decade on YouTube.   
      
   According to Right Wing Watch’s website, the group’s purpose is to   
   “monitor and expose the activities and rhetoric of right-wing activists   
   and organizations in order to expose their extreme agenda.”   
      
   Right Wing Watch   
   Right Wing Watch has battled for years with YouTube over extremist videos   
   it posts.   
   Right Wing Watch   
   Some of the extremist videos that the group posted over the years had been   
   problematic for YouTube’s community guidelines.   
      
   For instance, in October, the group said via Twitter that YouTube took   
   down one of its videos showing content related to a QAnon conspiracy   
   theory, but it complained that the site left up the original YouTube   
   channel where the group found the content. Right Wing Watch reported a   
   similar issue in April with content related to the 2020 presidential   
   election.   
      
   Shortly after YouTube reinstated Right Wing Watch’s channel on Monday, the   
   group’s director Adele Stein said she hopes the platform becomes “more   
   transparent about the process it uses to determine whether a user has   
   violated its rules.”   
      
   https://nypost.com/2021/06/29/youtube-reverses-ban-on-racist-conspiracy-   
   videos-posted-by-right-wing-watch/   
      
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