YouTube Terminates Account of InfoWars Bureau Chief Jerome Corsi (Video)

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The channel, which had amassed around 30,000 subscribers, has been wiped clean, its content replaced with a small red termination notice. The removal appears to be for keeps as well. As opposed to suspensions, parent company Google’s rules outline the repercussions of terminations as the following (emphasis ours):

Users whose accounts have been terminated are prohibited from accessing, possessing, or creating any other Google Accounts. When an account is terminated, the account owner receives an email detailing the reason for the termination.

Corsi’s ban reads as a prelude to a possible termination for InfoWars’s entire YouTube presence. Videos attacking or undermining the credibility of Parkland shooting victims have put two strikes on that channel, leading many to speculate the conspiracy operation run by Alex Jones may not have long left on the internet’s largest video-sharing site, though for the time being two biggest channels associated with InfoWars, Alex Jones (2.2m subscribers) and editor-at-large Paul Joseph Watson (1.1m subscribers), remain accessible.

Per the Daily Mail, two former InfoWars employees said this week that Jones himself committed workplace transgressions against them. In response Jones said, “my feelings are hurt”and called the employees’ claims “total bullshit.”

For now, Corsi will have to content himself with his 100,000+ followers on Twitter, a website notoriously bad at fighting harassment and misinformation.

[Will Sommer]