Last week, YouTube suspended One America News Network
(OANN) in San Diego, after it posted a video discussing a possible cure for
coronavirus which YouTube says is bogus. The network was suspended from posting for one
week and has to reapply to the YouTube partner program. YT apparently says it
does not consider OANN and “authoritative news source”, as it is sort of a “Baby
Fox News”. Adi Robertson explains for
The Verge.
I’m not sure what that cure was. I know that hydroxychloroquine and I believe
ivermectin have not been approved by FDA or been considered sufficient for
prophylactic use by peer studies, but I keep hearing anecdotal reports that sound
interesting. We should find something to
give to people by mouth once they test positive. How much biochemistry did we learn from HIV?
Brian Stelter at CNN has excoriated the network. Stelter
notes that OANN often got called on a lot at Trump’s White House press
conferences. In the early days, especially
when Sean Spicer was press secretary, Trey Yingst was the representative from
OANN. Trey, along with Ford Fischer,
created News2Share (which Ford runs today, covering major protests and
demonstrations all over the country and sometimes Europe – and has paid special
heed to Chelsea Manning’s situation with a grand jury, which the “leftist” gay
media has ignored). Trey decided to work
for corporate media and went to OANN (he now reports from Israel for Fox
News). Trey’s questions were usually
quite balanced and probing and not necessarily “easy”. OANN’s site looked sparse on line, but I didn’t
have the impression that is views or reporting was extreme. It does seem, to me at least, that Trump’s
claims of election fraud are way over the top (and so far the courts have not
sided with Trump’s claims). We do need a peaceful transition.
Again, what counts as an “authoritative news source”
is becoming an important question as the tech industry ponders other likely
changes (like to Section 230).
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