BERLIN (AP) – Google has said it has banned a prominent German user of its YouTube video platform who has repeatedly posted false claims about the coronavirus outbreak.
Google said on Friday that a YouTube channel known as KenFM was no longer available and that the person operating it would not be allowed to start another.
“We have long-standing policies on community guidelines, which warn when our systems are notified of a breach of YouTube rules of conduct,” the company said in a statement.
“The videos on the KenFM channel violated our COVID-19 policies, and the channel was removed from YouTube after receiving the third warning for a video within 90 days, on November 19, 2020,” he said.
KenFM was operated by Ken Jebsen, a former journalist who was fired by German public broadcaster rbb after his anti-Semitic comments came to light.
YouTube and others have vowed to prevent the spread of coronavirus misinformation by users of their sites.