<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/youtube" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YouTube</a> appears to have amended its policies so that it is now acceptable to express skepticism about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/face-mask" target="_blank" rel="noopener">masks</a> on its platform.</p>
<p>Journalist and podcaster Tim Pool posted before-and-after screenshots from YouTube&#8217;s misinformation policies to Twitter. The screenshots show that a rule that bans users from claiming that face masks do not play a role in preventing the spread of COVID-19 has been removed from the policies page. The amended rules come nearly a year after the platform suspended several high-profile conservative leaders with massive followings for violating the policy.</p>
<p>&#8220;Youtube updated its policies to no longer ban claims that masks do not play a role in preventing spread of COVID,&#8221; Pool captioned the photos. &#8220;Essentially, you are now allowed to claim masks don&#8217;t work.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Youtube updated its policies to no longer ban claims that masks do not play a role in preventing spread of COVID</p>
<p>Essentially, you are now allowed to claim masks don&#8217;t work <a href="https://t.co/SI3wF9jov8">pic.twitter.com/SI3wF9jov8</a></p>
<p>— Tim Pool (@Timcast) <a href="https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1561906311125680138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 23, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The screenshots are taken from Youtube&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9891785?hl=en&amp;ref_topic=10833358" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID-19 medical misinformation policy</a>.&#8221; Under the headline &#8220;Prevention misinformation,&#8221; Youtube bans content on its platform that includes &#8220;[c]laims that masks do not play a role in preventing the contraction or transmission of COVID-19.&#8221; It also bans &#8220;[c]laims that wearing a mask is dangerous or causes negative physical health effects.&#8221; Pool&#8217;s second screenshot shows the same section, with both those rules removed.</p>
<p>A screenshot of the rules page from the Internet Archive&#8217;s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220000000000*/https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9891785?hl=en&amp;ref_topic=10833358" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wayback Machine</a>, dated April 13, shows the policies still on the site. But they were quietly removed shortly afterward, as they do not appear in a screenshot of the site dated May 31.</p>
<p>A number of YouTubers who had allegedly been banned for violating the rules during the height of the pandemic reacted to the changes.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think I got a strike for this,&#8221; user @matthewprewett tweeted. &#8220;I wasn’t allowed to do certain actions during that time as my account was restricted. This is the problem with a company deciding to be the arbitrator of truth.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;In March 2021, @YouTube banned a video of me telling @GovRonDeSantis that there was no high quality evidence that force masking children protects anyone from covid,&#8221; Stanford School of Medicine Professor <a href="https://twitter.com/DrJBhattacharya/status/1562138852965376003?s=20&amp;t=91PYRAGaKT7PoBDIUQM_aw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Jay Bhattacharya</a> wrote. &#8220;Shame on YouTube for censoring to support CDC propaganda. The Science(tm) changed, but the science didn&#8217;t.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Smh. I got a strike over this,&#8221; YouTuber and former police officer <a href="https://twitter.com/TheOfficerTatum/status/1562086185836560385?s=20&amp;t=91PYRAGaKT7PoBDIUQM_aw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brandon Tatum</a> replied.</p>
<p>YouTube suspended a number of other high-profile leaders in the conservative movement in 2021 and early 2022 allegedly for violating the policy. As tweeted by Bhattacharya, in April 2021, YouTube took down a video of Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/youtube-pulls-video-of-desantis-medical-experts-for-saying-children-dont-need-masks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> (R) discussing the efficacy of masks in schools. Then in August, YouTube removed a video and suspended Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/im-not-sure-when-youtube-became-an-arm-of-the-government-rand-paul-slaps-back-after-youtube-suspension" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rand Paul</a> (R-KY) discussing “a variety of topics, including the science behind masks,&#8221; The Daily Wire reported at the time.</p>
<p>YouTube&#8217;s move prompted the senator to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-just-want-my-silence-rand-paul-quits-youtube-slams-big-tech-censorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leave the platform altogether</a> in January. YouTube also permanently suspended conservative talk show host <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/dan-bongino-youtube-suspension-covid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dan Bongino</a> in January 2022 after he questioned mask policies on the platform, prompting him to migrate his content to the alternative video platform Rumble.</p>

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