A few years ago on YouTube one of our accounts received a warning for “misinformation“ even though in the description it said that the video was manipulated and we gave credit/source of where the video originated from as we were trying to raise awareness that if you see this video as someone trying to claim it being being real correct them by stating that is not real, it is manipulated. of course YouTube claims that they carefully review videos but the truth is I don’t believe that because if they truly did carefully review it, they would’ve seen in the video description that it clearly states that it was not real, it was manipulated and they don’t take contacts into any consideration in fact, I think the people who review videos just hit reject, reject, reject, since the reviewers are nonsense anyway, why should they care, they can’t be held accountable
About three years of the video being taken down, the warning is still on our account which in my opinion is should’ve never been issued. When a warning is issued on YouTube, it stays on the account indefinitely, but YouTube seems to be making a slight change to this, which I think is definitely a step in the right direction. Warnings should not live on the persons account indefinitely.
If you receive a warning, generally speaking, no action will be taken other than the video will be taken down, you still have the choice to appeal the decision, but whatever you do DO NOT delete the video, if you delete the video you cannot appeal, nor can you ask them to even take a look to see if it was issued in an an error.