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YouTube suspended one of Bongino's YouTube
channels on Jan. 20 after he posted a video where he questioned
the effectiveness of using masks against the coronavirus, a
violation of the company's pandemic-related misinformation
policy. His later attempt to circumvent that one-week suspension
by posting from another channel triggered a permanent ban,
YouTube said.
"When a channel receives a strike, it is against our Terms of
Service to post content or use another channel to circumvent the
suspension," YouTube said in a statement. "If a channel is
terminated, the uploader is unable to use, own or create any
other YouTube channels."
The video giant has added more rules around COVID-19 content as
the pandemic has worn on. Last September, it banned conservative
commentators such as Joseph Mercola and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
for spreading misinformation about vaccines.
Bongino did not respond to a request for comment sent to his
website on Wednesday. But he said on Twitter last week that the
suspension did not surprise him and that he planned to continue
posting videos on Rumble, a YouTube-style service popular among
conservatives. Bongino wrote that he had double the number of
followers on Rumble as on YouTube.
His Dan Bongino Show channel on YouTube had 882,000 subscribers
and nearly 1,100 uploads since it was created in 2013, according
to tracker Social Blade.
(Reporting by Paresh Dave; Editing by Aurora Ellis)
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