YouTube Suspends Senator Rand Paul 7 Days Over COVID Misinformation

During the seven-day suspension, Paul will be unable to post new videos to his YouTube account.

YouTube suspended U.S. Sen. Rand Paul for seven days on Tuesday and removed a video posted by the Kentucky Republican that claimed cloth masks don't prevent infection, saying it violated policies on COVID-19 misinformation. It's the second time this month that one of Paul's videos has been taken down by YouTube for breaking its rules about misleading content. “We removed content from Senator Paul’s channel for including claims that masks are ineffective in preventing the contraction or transmission of COVID-19, in accordance with our COVID-19 medical misinformation policies," YouTube said in a statement. “We apply our policies consistently across the platform, regardless of speaker or political views.”