YouTube permanently bans Fox News host Dan Bongino


FILE PHOTO: U.S. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and radio host Dan Bongino arrive to participate in a U.S. House Judiciary Committee hearing on police violence and racial profiling following weeks of protests against racial inequality in the aftermath of George Floyd's death in Minneapolis, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. June 10, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

(Reuters) - Fox News Channel host Dan Bongino on Wednesday became among the most-followed conservative personalities to be permanently banned from YouTube, a week after the Google-owned video service said he had posted COVID-19 misinformation.

YouTube suspended one of Bongino's YouTube channels on Jan. 20 after he posted a video where he questioned the effectiveness of using masks against the coronavirus, a violation of the company's pandemic-related misinformation policy. His later attempt to circumvent that one-week suspension by posting from another channel triggered a permanent ban, YouTube said.

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