Sky News Australia has been suspended on YouTube for seven days after it breached its policy on coronavirus misinformation.
The video social media site has been fiercely trying to stop fake news and deliberately false clips from seeping into the community.
It has a three strikes policy for creators and it looks like one of Australia's biggest news channels has broken it.
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A statement from YouTube states: "We have clear and established COVID-19 medical misinformation policies based on local and global health authority guidance, to prevent the spread of COVID-19 misinformation that could cause real-world harm.
"We apply our policies equally for everyone regardless of uploader, and in accordance with these policies and our long-standing strikes system, removed videos from and issued a strike to Sky News Australia's channel.
"Specifically, we don't allow content that denies the existence of COVID-19 or that encourages people to use Hydroxychloroquine or Ivermectin to treat or prevent the virus.
"We do allow for videos that have sufficient countervailing context, which the violative videos did not provide."
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YouTube's three strikes policy means you get a warning the first time you upload content that goes against their vision.
If you persist and get your first strike, you'll be suspended from uploading new content for a week, as well as a bunch of other editing features related to your account.
After the week-long ban, you're free to push out videos once again, however that first strike will be on record for 90 days.
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If you get another strike in that three month period then you'll be banned for two weeks. A third strike within the 90 days will result in the channel being permanently deleted.
Sly News Australia has responded to the week-long suspension and supports YouTube's decision.
"We support broad discussion and debate on a wide range of topics and perspectives which is vital to any democracy," a spokesperson for the company said.
"We take our commitment to meeting editorial and community expectations seriously."
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The media statement boasted about its YouTube channel having more subscribers than the ABC and other major Aussie news networks.
The statement added: "Sky News Australia acknowledges YouTube's right to enforce its policies and looks forward to continuing to publish its popular news and analysis content back to its audience of 1.85 million YouTube subscribers shortly.
"Sky News Australia expressly rejects that any host has ever denied the existence of COVID-19 as was implied, and no such videos were ever published or removed.
"The Sky News Australia YouTube channel has published more than 20,000 videos over the past year."
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