YouTube suspends and demonetizes Trump's favored network One America News
COVID orthodoxy must be preserved at all costs. There has in fact been some medical acceptance that hydroxychloroquine is useful. The big mark against it is that Trump favored it
YouTube has barred the right-wing One America News Network from posting new content for a week after it shared a video promoting a fake cure for COVID-19.
The Google-owned social media giant also temporarily blocked OANN - a favorite channel of President Donald Trump - from making money off of existing videos, YouTube spokesperson Ivy Choi said Tuesday.
'After careful review, we removed a video from OANN and issued a strike on the channel for violating our COVID-19 misinformation policy, which prohibits content claiming there's a guaranteed cure,' Choi said in a statement.
She said the video that was taken down claimed that hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug touted by Trump despite a lack of scientific evidence, could cure COVID-19.
Several Twitter users posted links to a video believed to be the one cited by YouTube, in which a California doctor said he'd 'cured' 1,700 patients with hydroxychloroquine in early October.
According to YouTube policy, OANN has two more strikes before being kicked off the social media platform.
OANN responded to the suspension by saying it would abide by YouTube's policies going forward but added that it 'will not let YouTube's arbitrary rules infringe upon our First Amendment editorial rights to inform the public'.
'However, these are actual, practicing doctors who went to medical school and are highly qualified to make medical decisions — much more so than the moderators at YouTube.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8984319/YouTube-bans-far-right-wing-OAN-channel-week.html
McDonald's is accused of 'cultural appropriation over its new Jerk Chicken SandwichThe chain announced a new Jerk Chicken Sandwich for its festive menu, which also features a double Big Mac and a Celebrations McFlurry.
But it is the Jerk Chicken Sandwich which has caused the biggest stir - and not all for the right reasons.
While some have taken to social media to praise the burger, others have hit out at McDonald's accusing them of 'cultural appropriation'.
Cultural appropriation is the adoption of an element or elements of one culture or identity by members of another culture or identity.
It is particularly controversial when members of a dominant culture appropriate from disadvantaged minority cultures.
Jerk chicken originates from Jamaica and is believed by historians to come from indigenous Taino people and Maroons - descendants of Africans who were enslaved in the Caribbean islands.
One person tweeted: 'The more I think about it the more I'm bothered by the McDonald's 'jerk chicken' attempt.
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1 comment:
Do all the people bothered by the new sandwich eat only the food eaten by their cultural and genetic ancestors? If not shut the heck up. You do not get to pick and choose which things are cultural appropriation according to whether or not it meets your own personal theories. If it was not for so called approbation, the world and our civilization would not exist.
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