SAN BRUNO, Calif. – The video-sharing site YouTube banned Senator Ron Johnson from uploading videos for seven days. At issue was a video in which Johnson argued that federal health authorities had repeatedly ignored research into cheap and generic drugs to treat Covid. The Wisconsin senator, a Republican, is not a physician but is a sucker for conspiracy theories. In the video he made a case for hydroxychloroquine, which President trump had advanced earlier — and also without substantiation. Said a YouTube spokesperson: “We removed the video in accordance with our Covid medical misinformation policies. The polices are specific about hydroxychloroquine.
Johnson. YouTube cites babbling misinformation as dangerous.