{"id":29455,"date":"2020-11-24T19:46:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T03:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29455"},"modified":"2020-11-24T19:46:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T03:46:58","slug":"youtube-suspends-oann-amid-lawmaker-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29455","title":{"rendered":"YouTube suspends OANN amid lawmaker pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has suspended the pro-Trump One America News Network from posting new videos for a week, and the outlet has had its old content demonetized after uploading a video containing misinformation about the coronavirus, YouTube spokesperson Ivy Choi confirmed to The Hill on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The weeklong suspension is the result of a \u201cstrike\u201d issued for saying that there is a guaranteed cure for COVID-19, a claim that runs afoul of YouTube\u2019s coronavirus-specific policy.<\/p>\n<p>The demonetization came as a result of \u201crepeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy and other channel monetization policies,\u201d Choi said.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ggrnsjwqmccdfjfcdkrmmdnnmwdpcwchhtmqjlpcwknkng_wdddggvlvbdsfslgjzdg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ggrnsjwqmccdfjfcdkrmmdnnmwdpcwchhtmqjlpcwknkng_wdddggvlvbdsfslgjzdg.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1606355302549000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1-khyNO1EI7W7gHlf5D4ue\">Axios first reported<\/a>\u00a0on the suspension and demonetization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarly on in this pandemic, we\u2019ve worked to prevent the spread of harmful misinformation associated with COVID-19 on YouTube,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube did not immediately respond to questions about how many strikes OANN had previously accrued. The channel has been criticized for spreading myriad lies about the pandemic and the election.<\/p>\n<p>False claims about the result of the election are not explicitly banned by the video-sharing platform&#8217;s policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has suspended the pro-Trump One&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29456,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29455\/revisions\/29456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}