YouTube removes Iran Foreign Ministry’s channel for violations: summary

What we know

• A channel said to be owned by the Iranian Foreign Ministry has been removed by video sharing platform YouTube over violations.
• The U.S.-based media platform cited repeated violations of its regulations by the ministry’s channel.
• The removal comes after the Iranian Foreign Ministry published a video titled, “Resistance, the only option for Palestine”.
• Similar actions have been taken by other social media platforms including Meta in the past.
• Meta spokesperson said in February "We have removed these accounts for repeatedly violating our Dangerous Organizations & Individuals policy”.

What they said

A message posted by YouTube after the removal said that the channel had violated its “violent criminal organizational policy”. “We have reviewed your content and found severe or repeated violations of our violent criminal organization policy. Because of this, we have removed your channel from YouTube,” it said.