SAN FRANCISCO -- YouTube will create a process to reinstate the accounts of content creators whose profiles were banned in recent years because they violated rules that limited misinformation about COVID-19 and the 2020 election.

The streaming platform revealed its plans to restore creators' accounts Tuesday in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee. The change comes as YouTube has started relaxing its content moderation rules, increasing the threshold for offending content and modifying rules on COVID misinformation.

The letter was submitted by Alphabet, YouTube's parent company, in response to a lengthy investigation by Republicans into whether tech companies restricted speech on their platforms at the behest of the Biden administration. It was part of a broader attack by Republican

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