YouTube

• YouTube has more than 479.4 million accounts active in the EU. Every day these users have content removed or their account suspended, or see harmful content that is left up.
• We have been accepting disputes from YouTube since November 2024.
• In our recent Transparency Report, we overturned YouTube’s decisions 54% of the time, where we reviewed the content.
• The top 3 policy areas we received disputes about were:
  • Hate Speech and Hateful Policies
  • Fraud & Scams
  • Adult Nudity & Sexual Activity

What policies do we cover?

Some of the policies we cover include:

• Fraud and Scams
• Hate Speech and Hateful Policies
• Adult Nudity and Sexual Activity
• Violence and Crime
• Harassment and Bullying
• Violent and Graphic Content

You can view all of the policies we cover in our Rules of Procedure, and you can view all of YouTube’s content policies in their
community guidelines.

Remember! We can’t accept disputes in some areas, including:

• Impersonation
• Hacked accounts
• Copyright
• Spam decisions related to technical or automated systems
• Child Sexually Explicit Material

What do I need to know before I submit a YouTube dispute?

You can dispute YouTube’s decision if the platform has:

1. Suspended or restricted a channel that I want restored
2. Removed or restricted content that I want restored
3. Left up content that I want removed

YouTube suspended or restricted a channel that I want restored

Before you submit your dispute, it would be helpful to gather the following information:

• Email address associated with your YouTube channel
• Username for channel
• The date that YouTube suspended your channel
• The type of content that led to your account being suspended or restricted
• The policy that YouTube said your account violated. When YouTube suspended
  your channel, they should have sent you an email explaining the policy your account
  supposedly violated.

YouTube removed or restricted content that I want restored

Before you submit your dispute, it would be helpful to gather the following information:

• Email address associated with your YouTube account
• Your YouTube username
• The date that YouTube removed or restricted the content
• A brief description of the content, to help the platform locate it
• The policy that YouTube said your content violated.

YouTube left up content that I want removed

Before you submit your dispute, it would be helpful to gather the following information:

• Email address associated with your YouTube account
• Your YouTube username
• A link to the content you reported
• The date that you reported the content to YouTube / the time and date
  that YouTube told you they would not be removing the content