Earlier this week, several users were banned from YouTube, after their accounts were flagged as spam or spreading misleading information. Ars Technica.
The problems started last Thursday when premium and free users discovered their accounts and content had disappeared. This resulted in them losing access to videos, playlists and saved posts on Youtube TV, YouTube Premium and YouTube Music.
The YouTube team confirmed the issue on Friday. Image source: X
Case in this regard i YouTube support forum It shows that more than 13,000 users have tagged as looking for an answer to the same question. This suggests there may be several thousand users affected, although YouTube has not released an official number.
What has been confirmed is that most of the affected users are not content creators, and many of them have never uploaded a video. However, some commenters in the support thread complained that videos with multiple views had been deleted.
According to the latest update from last Friday, all channels that were reported and wrongly removed should be restored, while work on restoring the removed videos is still ongoing.
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