US FTC Probes YouTube Over Social Media Policies, Bloomberg News Reports

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has been investigating whether YouTube violated consumer protection laws by suspending users’ accounts ​and is in the final stages of preparing a ‌potential lawsuit, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.

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The agency has been probing YouTube since last year, ⁠examining whether Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) video-sharing platform violated its own user policies when it ​banned or demoted content, the report said.

The inquiry is examining ​whether users were misled by YouTube’s content policies into signing up for the service in the belief that they were permitted to post ​certain content, only to have it removed or their ​accounts suspended, Bloomberg News reported.

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