YouTube Suspends Rand Paul for One Week After He Lied About the Effectiveness of Mask-Wearing

YouTube has suspended Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) from its level aft helium claimed that wearing a disguise is an ineffective safeguard against Covid-19.

“This resulted successful a archetypal onslaught connected the channel, which means it can’t upload contented for a week, per our longstanding 3 strikes policy,” a YouTube spokesperson told CBS News successful a statement. “We use our policies consistently crossed the platform, careless of talker oregon governmental views, and we marque exceptions for videos that person further discourse specified arsenic countervailing views from section wellness authorities.”

Paul took to Twitter to knock YouTube, referring to its employees arsenic “leftwing cretins,” and called his suspension a “badge of honor.”

Paul’s suspension from YouTube comes a time aft Twitter announced it had suspended the relationship of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) aft she violated the platform’s rules regarding Covid-19 misinformation.

In a tweet earlier this week, Greene claimed that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) “should not o.k. the covid vaccines” and that vaccines were “failing” and not really curbing the dispersed of the virus.

A Twitter spokesperson said that the tweet “was labeled successful enactment with our COVID-19 misleading accusation policy. The relationship volition beryllium successful read-only mode for a week owed to repeated violations of the Twitter Rules.”