YouTube

has

former president reinstated

Donald

Trump’s channel, which will allow him to upload videos ahead of the 2024 presidential election, the video platform announced on Friday.

A large number of social media sites

had

banned Trump

their platforms after are platforms ever since

the attack of January 6, 2021 on the

US

Capitol. YouTube had cited “concerns about the continued potential for violence” and violation of its “incitement to violence policy”.

In its decision to reverse course, YouTube

which is owned by Google

acknowledged that it had considered such a threat of force

,

but wanted to give voters a fair chance to hear from major presidential candidates

, echo . The movement echoed

a similar decision by Meta Platforms, which had Trump resign in January

Unpleasant

Facebook and Instagram. Trump announced his 2024 run in November.

“As of today, Donald J. Trump’s channel is no longer restricted and can upload new content,” YouTube said a statement on Twitter. “We carefully evaluated the ongoing risk of real-world violence while balancing the opportunity for voters to hear directly from major national candidates ahead of elections.”

“This channel remains subject to our policies, just like any other channel on YouTube,” YouTube added.

Shortly after

it was his

restored, Trump’s channel uploaded a campaign commercial

,

titled “I’M BACK!”

and the place

features news footage of Trump addressing a crowd

the 2016

election night

in 2016

. Trump also posted the video on his Facebook

page, bill,

its first activity in over two years.

“Sorry to keep you waiting to complicate things,” Trump said in the archived footage

,

for

flashing

to advertising

flashed

for the campaign SMS service.

In December, the Chamber panel investigated the

events from

6 January

attack

recommended that Trump face criminal charges for his role in the uprising, in which a mob attempted to violently overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Yet Trump is considered a front

–

runner in the Republican primary race.

He hasn’t been charged yet.

Twitter, which Trump had also banned after the January 6 uprising, was reinstated

him Trump

in November after that

new owner and chief executive its CEO

Elon Musk

polled users about whether the former POTUS should be brought back. conducted a poll for users.

Twitter was Trump’s platform of choice

in communicating with the public

during his presidency. However,

the Truth Social founder Trump

didn’t use his

Twitter

account since it was reactivated; his last tweet

what’s coming

days after the attack on the Capitol.

Anus

trump

was restored on Twitter

,

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (DN.Y.) responded to Musk’s poll by tweeting a video of the

Jan 6 insurrection attack on the Capitol.

She tweeted that when Trump was last on Twitter,

the site

was used to provoke an uprising, several people died, the Vice President of the United States was nearly killed, and hundreds were injured, but I don’t think that’s enough for you to answer the question. Twitter poll it is.