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    8.  Senion Biden Administration officials, including White House officials, conducted
        repeated and sustained outreach to Alphabet and pressed the Company regarding certain
        user-generated content related to the COVID-19 pandemic that did not violate its policies.
        While the Company continued to develop and enforce its policies independently, Biden
        Administration officials continued to press the Company to remove non-violative
        user-generated content.
    …
    10. It is unacceptable and wrong when any government, including the Biden Administration,
        attempts to influence the actions of platforms based on their concerns regarding
        misinformation.
    …
    23. The Company terminated channels for repeatedly violating its Community Guidelines on
        elections integrity content through 2023 and COVID-19 content through 2024. Today,
        YouTube’s Community Guidelines allow for a wider range of content regarding
        COVID-19 and elections integrity. Reflecting the Community’s commitment to free
        expression, YouTube will provide an opportunity for all creators to rejoin the platform if
        the Company terminated their channels for repeated violations of COVID-19 and
        elections integrity policies that are no longer in effect.
They’re finally acknowledging that they allowed Biden to censor Americans by calling their viewpoints “misinformation”. Viewpoints that later became widely accepted as truth, or as likely to be true.

Fun times. How do we prevent it from happening again?