San Francisco, March 18 – Google-owned YouTube has reinstated the account of former US President Donald Trump that was banned after the January 2021 Capitol Hill Riot.
The move comes as the former president gears up for his 2024 presidential run.
“The Donald J. Trump channel is no longer restricted and can upload new content. We carefully evaluated the continued risk of real-world violence, while balancing the chance for voters to hear equally from major national candidates in the run up to an election,” YouTube said in a tweet.
“This channel will continue to be subject to our policies, just like any other channel on YouTube,” the company added.
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The reinstated Trump account has 2.64 million subscribers and over four thousand videos.
In 2020, Trump’s US presidential campaign spent more than $10 million on digital ads on YouTube.
In November last year, Elon Musk reinstated Trump’s Twitter account but he is yet to use it.
Trump now uses Truth Social, his own social media app.
YouTube TV’s ‘multiview’ feature rolling out to all users
Video-sharing platform YouTube on Saturday announced that it is rolling out its streaming television service’s new “multiview” feature to all usersAthat allows subscribers to watch up to four different programs at the same time.
The company tweeted from its YouTube TV account: “Wow! We hear ya! We’re rolling out multiview streams to ALL users for the rest of the tournament.”
“We didn’t plan to release this beyond our test group so soon. Please be patient while we fine tune and fix known issues. Enjoy multiview early as we prep for a biiig fall.”
Commenting on the announcement, one user asked, “Any chance it’ll ever be more than two screens? Ia�ve only ever seen that since yesterday.”
To this, the platform replied, “since this is a pilot feature, we’re still figuring out the best configurations. you may see anywhere from 2 to 4 streams shown together based on the timing of when games are scheduled to begin and end.”
Earlier this week, the company had announced the “multiview” feature andAsaid that early access to multiview will roll out to all YouTube TV members over the next few months.
