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YouTube bans Senator Rand Paul for a week after he posts that cloth masks "don't work"
Date: 2021-08-11 00:00:00

Republican Senator Rand Paul's YouTube account flatlined last night, and this morning it emerged he'd been handed a weeklong ban after posting Covid misinformation there: a claim that cloth masks are ineffective at preventing transmission of the virus.

A spokesman for YouTube told the Times that the video violated company policy on Covid-19 misinformation, which includes "claims that wearing a mask is dangerous or causes negative physical health effects" or that masks don't play a role in preventing the contraction or transmission of COVID-19.

Paul, who is not mad, tweeted that it was a "badge of honor" to be banned by "leftwing cretins".


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