Sky News Australia says suspended from YouTube for one week
Sky News Australia says suspended from YouTube for one week
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Sky News Australia said on Sunday it has been temporarily suspended by the video-sharing site YouTube following the platform s review of content for compliance with its COVID-19 policies.
"Sky News Australia acknowledges YouTube s right to enforce its policies and looks forward to continuing to publish its popular news and analysis content to its subscribers shortly," Sky News said in a statement on its website about the one-week suspension.
The 24-hour cable and television channel, which claims to have 1.85 million YouTube subscribers, is operated by Australian News Channel Pty Ltd and is a subsidiary of News Corp Australia.
YouTube, owned by Alphabet Inc s Google (GOOGL.O), confirmed the suspension.
"We apply our policies equally for everyone and in accordance with these policies and our long-standing strikes system, removed videos from and issued a strike to Sky News Australia s channel," a YouTube spokesperson said.
Australian media reported that the one-week suspension was issued on Thursday and came after a review of Sky News Australia s content that allegedly denied the existence of Covid-19 or encouraged people to use hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin to treat the coronavirus, without providing countervailing context.
