YouTube on Wednesday permanently banned conservative political commentator Dan Bongino after he was previously suspended for violating the platform’s COVID misinformation policy.
Both of Bongino’s main channel and second channel for his show have been removed, and he will not be allowed to create new accounts.
This week, the host announced on the video platform that he planned to leave his YouTube channel. It had some 900,000. Subscribers on the main channel. He also said that he was leaving Twitter because of what he considered to be an anti-conservative bias.
The pundit’s YouTube channel was temporarily suspended and demonetized earlier this month after her posted a video saying that masks are “useless”In stopping the spread COVID. The suspension was for a week. That was the Fox News personality’s first strike in the platform’s three-strike system. Three strikes in the space of 90 days result in a permanent ban. It is significant that he has 870,000 YouTube subscribers.
Bongino actively posts videos to Rumble, a YouTube competitor platform that targets conservatives. Bongino was a pioneer investor in Rumble. “The Dan Bongino Show”On Rumble, you can find full episodes and more than 2,000,000 subscribers.
Rumble is one alternative social media app that targets far-right users. It has criticized Silicon Valley social platforms for their biases and censorship. Parler and Gettr, both Twitter competitors, have also been competing to attract conservative users.