YouTube has suspended Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s account after he posted a video claiming that masks are ineffective in protecting against COVID-19.
In the YouTube video, Paul said that “cloth masks don’t work” and that most over-the-counter masks “don’t prevent infection.” YouTube said the video violated its policies against spreading COVID-19 medical misinformation.
“This resulted in a first strike on the channel, which means it can’t upload content for a week, per our longstanding three strikes policy,” a spokesperson for YouTube told ABC News. “We apply our policies consistently across the platform, regardless of speaker or political views, and we make exception for videos that have additional context such as countervailing views from local health authorities,” the spokesperson said.
Paul is the second Republican lawmaker this week to be suspended on social media for COVID-19 misinformation. Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was suspended from Twitter for a week for spreading COVID-19 misinformation. On Monday, she posted that the
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