Several high-profile, alt-right personalities have complained that they’ve received “strikes” from YouTube flagging violations of community guidelines on hateful or misleading content. Three strikes in a month will lead to the termination of the YouTube Channel. Among the high-profile marks were agitator Mike Chernovich, whose strike was apparently later reversed. And Infowars, the conspiracy theory news site headed by Alex Jones, announced it had received two strikes in two weeks over videos about the Parkland shooting.
Also targeted was the violent neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen, which was banned for hate speech, according to the report.
There has been a steady stream of controversy this week as YouTube cracked down on videos posted by far-right commentators and conspiracy theorists, The New York Times is reporting. The policy is largely a result of backlash over a misinformation video that falsely claimed a Parkland, Fla., high school student and gun control activist, David Hogg, was a paid crisis actor.
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