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YouTube temporarily suspends, demonetizes OANN
Axios ^ | November 24, 2020 | Ashley Gold

Posted on 11/24/2020 1:10:30 PM PST by McGruff

YouTube has barred One America News Network from posting new videos for a week and stripped it of its ability to make money off existing content after the Trump-friendly channel uploaded a video promoting a phony cure for COVID-19, YouTube spokesperson Ivy Choi tells Axios.

Why it matters: YouTube has been criticized for allowing OANN to spread misinformation using its platform, particularly around coronavirus and the election. This marks the Google-owned service's first crackdown against OANN.

Details: OANN's one-week suspension from posting new videos or livestreams is the result of a "strike" YouTube issued for violating its COVID-19 misinformation policy, which prohibits saying there is a guaranteed cure to the virus. YouTube took down the video that triggered the strike.

OANN is also suspended from the YouTube Partner Program, which means if it wants to monetize its videos again, it will have to re-apply.

YouTube has a three-strikes policy before an account is terminated. This is OANN's first strike, but it has violated the platform's COVID-19 misinformation policy before, meaning it gets no more warnings if it breaks the rules again — just additional strikes.

YouTube says it does not consider OANN an authoritative news source.

(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...


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1 posted on 11/24/2020 1:10:30 PM PST by McGruff
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To: McGruff

Silver kills all viruses 🦠 and bacteria 🧫
There ! I said it !
Vaccines don’t work ! They hurt you !
There I said it.

What big pharmaceutical won’t say. Ever


2 posted on 11/24/2020 1:13:58 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump Pence II! Save America again )
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To: McGruff
YouTube says it does not consider OANN an authoritative news source.

Not only do they decide who is president, now they also decide who's credible news.
3 posted on 11/24/2020 1:13:59 PM PST by JoSixChip
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If we want to win in the near future, we need to avoid crazy conspiracy theories and scams. And ban the Democrat trolls!

4 posted on 11/24/2020 1:14:22 PM PST by familyop (Educate your neighbors every year, not only during election years. Fight!)
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To: Truthoverpower

Is that what OANN was promoting? Silver?


5 posted on 11/24/2020 1:14:51 PM PST by marron
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To: McGruff
the result of a "strike"

Conservatives should strike YouTube. They banned Bannon's War Room - now it has popped up in a bunch of other places. I can get OAN from several sources other than YouTube. 80+ million leaving YouTube might have some impact on their revenue.

6 posted on 11/24/2020 1:14:52 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (The Republic is at a pivot point. Either you stand for freedom or die in slavery. )
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To: McGruff

Dominion employees scrubbing their internet presence has had our
attention lately, but I’ll bet Youtube, Twitter, Facebook and Google
employees, at least the smart ones, are all scrubbing theirs, too.

~Easy


7 posted on 11/24/2020 1:15:28 PM PST by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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To: ConservativeInPA

What a great idea.


8 posted on 11/24/2020 1:15:36 PM PST by RedMominBlueState
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To: McGruff

What was OANN promoting?


9 posted on 11/24/2020 1:15:52 PM PST by marron
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To: McGruff

Barring a miracle, I feel like I’m trapped in an endless nightmare or actually awake, witnessing the agonizingly death and funeral of my country!!!


10 posted on 11/24/2020 1:16:09 PM PST by edie1960
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To: marron

“Is that what OANN was promoting?”

Maybe they were showing Chanel Rion’s interview with Mr Byrne about fraud.


11 posted on 11/24/2020 1:16:17 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ("FRAUD VITIATES EVERYTHING." Landmark case - SCOTUS/ U.S. v. Throckmorton)
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To: Truthoverpower

Silver also kills humans if ingested in significant, but not overly large, quantities.


12 posted on 11/24/2020 1:16:56 PM PST by Intar
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To: ConservativeInPA
"I can get OAN from several sources other than YouTube."

What are those sources? I assume OANN.com, Rumble.com, and Parler.com are three.

13 posted on 11/24/2020 1:17:22 PM PST by DannyTN (<P><a href="https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3902132/posts">)
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To: McGruff
The YouTube issue doesn't matter. Crazy talk is voter repellent! The Internet is evil, because it is rife with Democrat propagandists giving bad advice! Remember that most psychologists and antisocial personalities are Democrats!

14 posted on 11/24/2020 1:17:41 PM PST by familyop (Educate your neighbors every year, not only during election years. Fight!)
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To: RedMominBlueState

Already practicing it. It is not terribly difficult to do. Just like I don’t click on AP articles, and now Fox News articles on FR. (many other things I don’t click)


15 posted on 11/24/2020 1:18:44 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (The Republic is at a pivot point. Either you stand for freedom or die in slavery. )
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To: McGruff

We pay OANN to be on our ROKU device.
Support them if you can.


16 posted on 11/24/2020 1:20:38 PM PST by JCL3 (As Richard Feynman might have said, this is reality taking precedence over public relations.)
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To: McGruff

You can stream OANN here.

http://www.klowdtv.com/

OANN should try getting with XUMO, too. NewsMax is viewable through XUMO.


17 posted on 11/24/2020 1:21:40 PM PST by familyop (Educate your neighbors every year, not only during election years. Fight!)
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To: McGruff

The freeeeeee market will work it out. Just ask your average freeper. I mean who cares that our election was stolen, opinions and facts were blocked...even by the president himself. At least we can start our own web sites and talk amongst ourselves while the enemy, the Beast laughs at us.


18 posted on 11/24/2020 1:21:57 PM PST by Phillyred
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To: familyop

Sit down. 🤐
😷 Behave.
Great formula for followers, but not a winning strategy.


19 posted on 11/24/2020 1:23:28 PM PST by tinamina
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To: ConservativeInPA

“Conservatives should strike YouTube.”

I run an adblocker and never, EVER watch ads that do appear.


20 posted on 11/24/2020 1:23:50 PM PST by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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