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. YouTube has not disclosed which Sky News program the videos were from but said there were “numerous” offending videos which have now been removed. The Sky News Australia YouTube channel, which has 1.85m subscribers, has been issued a strike and is temporarily suspended from uploading new videos or livestreams for one week. https://t.co/kw6TigECV2 — Mehreen Faruqi (@MehreenFaruqi) August 1, 2021The strike was revealed on the same day as Sky launched a new free-to-air channel Sky News Regional across regional Australia. “Have a look at Sky News YouTube, Sky News Facebook and Alan Jones Facebook and you can see,” Jones told his viewers.

Source: The Guardian August 01, 2021 04:40 UTC