SKY NEWS Australia disgrace - Sky News Australia banned from YouTube for seven days over Covid misinformation
"Sky News Australia is tapping into the global conspiracy set – and it’s paying off"
That's is one indictment of the human race (See bottom). Murdoch bought it in 2016.
Digital giant issues strike after channel posted videos denying the existence of disease and encouraging people to use discredited medication
Sky News Australia’s YouTube channel has been issued a strike and temporarily suspended from uploading new videos or livestreams for one week. Three strikes in a 90-day period will result in a channel being permanently removed from YouTube. Photograph: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
Amanda Meade
Sun 1 Aug 2021 14.40 AEST Last modified on Mon 2 Aug 2021 18.35 AEST
Sky News Australia has been banned from uploading content to YouTube for seven days after violating its medical misinformation policies by posting numerous videos which denied the existence of Covid-19 or encouraged people to use hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin.
The Sky News Australia YouTube channel, which has 1.85m subscribers, has been issued a strike and is temporarily suspended from uploading new videos or livestreams for one week.
The ban will impact Sky News’s revenue stream under the YouTube Partner Program which gives them access to YouTube resources and features.
Mehreen Faruqi @MehreenFaruqi What a damning indictment on our political and media landscape that this extremist, conspiratorial, racist news channel is still considered normal and acceptable. Sky’s time is up.
The channel carries all the Sky After Dark commentators, including Andrew Bolt, Peta Credlin and Jones, as well as a new three-hour breakfast show.
Videos that did not violate policies and were posted before Thursday are still online. Three strikes in the same 90-day period will result in a channel being permanently removed from YouTube.
“We have clear and established Covid-19 medical misinformation policies .. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2802032?hl=en .. based on local and global health authority guidance, to prevent the spread of Covid-19 misinformation that could cause real-world harm,” a YouTube spokesperson told Guardian Australia.
“We apply our policies equally for everyone regardless of uploader, and in accordance with these policies and our long-standing strikes system .. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2802032?hl=en , removed videos from and issued a strike to Sky News Australia’s channel.
YouTube’s decisive action is in stark contrast to the response from local media regulators.
Neither the Australian Communications and Media Authority nor the subscription television body, Astra, took any action when informed of Jones’s Covid broadcast on Monday.
“The Acma is aware of the broadcasts and various concerns raised about them,” a spokesman told Guardian Australia. “At this stage we will wait to see how complaints are handled by the broadcaster under the co-regulatory system.”
Sky News Australia said it “expressly rejects” claims that any hosts ever denied the existence of Covid-19 and that “no such videos were ever published or removed”.
The broadcaster said “a review of old videos published to the channel” had uncovered material that did not comply with YouTube’s policies.
“We take our commitment to meeting editorial and community expectations seriously.”
Sky’s YouTube channel has grown in two years from 70,000 subscribers to 1.85m, which is higher than ABC News or any other local media company.
One of the most popular videos, with 4.6m views, is Jones’s “Australians must know the truth – this virus is not a pandemic”, which was posted at the height of the pandemic last year.
On 19 July, Sky News was forced to apologise for a Jones interview with MP Craig Kelly in which they claimed the Delta variant is not dangerous and vaccines won’t help you. The video was removed and a lengthy apology was published on the Sky News website.
YouTube is an important platform for Sky News and the more extreme the video, the more popular it is.
Earlier this week after he was dumped by the Daily Telegraph, Jones, 80, pointed to his success on the platform.
“Have a look at Sky News YouTube, Sky News Facebook and Alan Jones Facebook and you can see,” Jones told his viewers. “The same column that I write for the Tele goes up on my Facebook page.
“The public can check it for themselves. Thirty-five years at top of the radio – and I don’t resonate with the public? Honestly.”
Sky News Australia is an Australian 24 hour cable and satellite channel available on the Foxtel and Optus Television subscription platforms and on free-to-air television in regional and non-metropolitan areas throughout Australia. It is also available in New Zealand on Sky Television and Vodafone.[2] It is not related to the British Sky News. Since its takeover by News Corp Australia in 2016 it has been described as deepening "the lineup of right-wing opinion shows that focused on hot-button topics such as immigration, climate change and, more recently, the pandemic" and as having an evening program of "peddling of extreme right-wing propaganda, lies, disinformation, crude distortion of fact and baseless assertions".[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_News_Australia
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