Sky News Australia will face a Senate inquiry next week after the broadcaster was suspended for seven days for posting numerous videos which violated YouTube’s Covid medical misinformation policies. The Sky News Australia YouTube channel, which has 1.8m subscribers, has been issued a strike and was temporarily suspended from uploading new videos or live streams for one week. pic.twitter.com/XCPlFzylXe — Kevin Rudd (@MrKRudd) August 4, 2021The Google-owned US platform took action under its Covid-19 medical misinformation policies to “prevent the spread of Covid-19 misinformation that could cause real-world harm”. Hanson-Young has recalled the upper house media diversity inquiry which she chairs to question executives from Acma, Sky News Australia and YouTube, who will attend. “Google-owned YouTube has taken action to uphold its policies around medical misinformation on its platform and that is welcome,” she said.

Source: The Guardian August 05, 2021 17:30 UTC