Sky News Australia banned from YouTube for seven days over COVID-19 misinformation

Amanda Meade, The Guardian, 01 August 2021

Sky News Australia has been banned from uploading content to YouTube for seven days after violating its medical misinformation policies by posting numerous videos which denied the existence of COVID-19, or encouraged people to use hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin. The YouTube channel has grown in two years from 70,000 subscribers to 1.85 million, higher than any other local media company. YouTube’s decisive action is in stark contrast to the response from local media regulators...

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