Video-sharing platform YouTube has pulled a video posted by the congressional committee investigating last year's deadly attack on the US Capitol because it contained election misinformation spread by then president Donald Trump.
YouTube spokesperson Ivy Choi said: "Our election integrity policy prohibits content advancing false claims that widespread fraud, errors or glitches changed the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election, if it does not provide sufficient context.
She said: "We enforce our policies equally for everyone, and have removed the video uploaded by the January 6th Committee channel."
The committee, which is in the middle of a series of public hearings investigating the attack on the seat of US government on 6 January 2021 in a bid to overturn the presidential election results in Mr Trump's favour, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
YouTube did not specify which video was taken down at the channel, but media reports indicated the nixed clip contained Mr Trump making baseless claims challenging the integrity of the election - which he lost.
Congressional investigators and former aides in the Trump administration said this week that the former president pressured his vice-president, Mike Pence, to go along with an illegal plot to overturn the 2020 US election and whipped up a mob that put his deputy's life in danger when he refused.
The committee investigating the attack by supporters of Mr Trump detailed how he berated Mr Pence for not going along with the scheme both knew to be unlawful - even after being told violence had erupted as Congress was meeting to certify Joe Biden's victory.
At its third public hearing into the insurrection, the panel detailed a "relentless" pressure campaign by Mr Trump on Mr Pence - as cornerstone of a criminal conspiracy to keep the vanquished president in power.
The committee maintains that Mr Trump's pursuit of this scheme led to the violence at the Capitol, which was linked to at least five deaths.
