YouTube temporarily suspends Ron Johnson's channel over COVID-19 misinformation

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Source: the hill



By Chris Mills Rodrigo - 11/12/21 04:49 PM EST



Sen. Ron Johnson’s (R-Wis.) YouTube account was suspended for one week Friday for uploading content violating the platform’s policy against COVID-19 misinformation.

The video that triggered the suspension was a roundtable discussion in which the lawmaker falsely claimed that coronavirus vaccines are unsafe.

“The updated figures today are 17,619,” he said. “That is 225 times the number of deaths in just a 10-month period versus an annual figure for the flu vaccine. These vaccine injuries are real.”

Johnson was citing numbers from the self-reporting database the Vaccine Adverse Effects Reporting System (VAERS). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that reports in the system, which can easily be gamed by activists hoping to prove a point, “do not necessarily mean that a vaccine caused a health problem.”
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The video of the roundtable was removed by the platform, a YouTube spokesperson told The Hill, although a shorter version of the discussion was allowed to stay up.

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Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/581360-youtube-temporarily-suspends-johnsons-channel-over-covid-19-misinformation

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Not enough punishment for Johnson.

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[StarryNite]

1. "Me, "crying" about this..." LOL

[Ziggysmom]

2. Ron Johnson is as fake as Shittenhouse crying. Maybe even more so.

[Comfortably_Numb]

3. Gee how draconian. A whole week? Johnson is dangerous and should be dealt with harshly.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Did a quick search and this is now at least the 3rd time

Should have been "3 strikes he's out".

FEBRUARY 2021

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Senator Ron Johnson
@SenRonJohnson
YouTube has “suspended” a U.S. Senator’s account (mine) because it contained information on possible effective early treatment for COVID using safe, cheap, and available generic drugs. Go figure.
6:22 PM · Feb 6, 2021

JUNE 2021

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Patrick Marley
@patrickdmarley
Ron Johnson suspended for a week from YouTube for COVID misinformation -- via @BillGlauber
Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson suspended for a week from YouTube after Milwaukee Press Club event
YouTube has pulled a speech by Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson and suspended him for a week for violating COVID-19 "medical misinformation policies."
jsonline.com
5:55 PM · Jun 11, 2021