Sky News Australia has purged several videos promoting unproven Covid-19 treatments from its YouTube page ahead of the scheduled lifting of its suspension from the platform. Guardian Australia later found six more videos that mention the unproven Covid treatments were still on Sky News’ YouTube channel as of Tuesday morning. After questions were sent to YouTube about why the policy had been applied to some videos but not others, many of the videos were deleted. Unlike those removed by YouTube – which clearly state they were removed by YouTube for violating community guidelines – these videos state they were removed by the uploader, Sky News. Sky News has previously said all the videos that were initially removed were “old”, however Guardian Australia understands the videos deleted by YouTube include content from this year, as well as 2020.

Source: The Guardian August 03, 2021 17:26 UTC