YouTube gives deadline for users to recover accounts banned for COVID-19, election speech

FIRST ON FOX: YouTube is giving creators who were banned for certain types of political speech a chance to reinstate their accounts on the video-sharing platform and retain their former audiences, but they must act before Sunday, otherwise they will need to start from scratch.YouTube users must go through an appeals process by Nov. 9 to restore former accounts banned over content related to COVID-19 and elections, two sources familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital.The sources said YouTube will still allow the users back on the platform after that date but that their former page and sub