YouTube announced on Thursday that creators whose channels were previously terminated will soon be able to request new accounts under a limited pilot programme. The move marks a major policy shift for the platform, which says it wants to give some creators a “second chance”.

“We know many terminated creators deserve a second chance. YouTube has evolved and changed over the past 20 years, and we’ve had our share of second chances to get things right with our community too,” the company wrote in a blog post. Advertisement

The new policy comes in the wake of political scrutiny. Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) had previously subpoenaed YouTube’s parent company, Alphabet, as part of an investigation into whether the Biden-Harris administration had influenced content moderation decisions. In

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