New Delhi: YouTube has permanently banned Fox News Channel host Dan Bongino for spreading misinformation about COVID-19. He was the most-followed conservative personalities.
Earlier on January 20 YouTube had suspended one of his YouTube channel, after he had posted a video questioning the effectiveness of using masks for protection against the Coronavirus. This was a violation of the company’s pandemic-related misinformation policy. His later attempt to evade that one-week suspension by posting from another channel triggered a permanent ban, YouTube said.
“When a channel receives a strike, it is against our Terms of Service to post content or use another channel to circumvent the suspension,” YouTube said in a statement. “If a channel is terminated, the uploader is unable to use, own or create any other YouTube channels.”
YouTube has added more rules for the information being posted about the pandemic. Last in the month of September it had banned conservative commentators such as Joseph Mercola and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. because they had spread misinformation about the vaccines.
On Wednesday he did not respond to a comment on his website. But on Twitter last week he stated that the suspension did not surprise him and that he planned to continue posting videos on Rumble, a YouTube-style service popular among conservatives. Bongino wrote that he had double the number of followers on Rumble as on YouTube.
His Dan Bongino Show channel on YouTube had 882,000 subscribers and nearly 1,100 uploads since it was created in 2013, according to tracker Social Blade.
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