Thanks to the quest to clamp down on blatant misinformation — OANN (One America News Network) has found itself on the receiving end of harsh criticism and a Youtube ban. According to CNN, the controversial and often dishonest news network is banned from uploading videos to Youtube for at least a week after having ran afoul of the site’s systems.
Firstly the news was first reported by Axios.
“After careful review, we removed a video from OANN and issued a strike on the channel for violating our Covid-19 misinformation policy, which prohibits content claiming there’s a guaranteed cure,” Ivy Choi, a YouTube spokesperson, told CNN in a statement.
“Additionally, due to repeated violations of our Covid-19 misinformation policy and other channel monetization policies, we’ve suspended the channel from the YouTube Partner Program and as a result, its monetization on YouTube,” Choi added.