(Jewish Group) YouTube pages of French comedian Dieudonne, Richard Spencer and David Duke among 25K
YouTube pages of French comedian Dieudonne, Richard Spencer and David Duke among 25,000 removed for hate speech
YouTube has seen enough of the French comedian Dieudonné Mbala Mbala. White supremacist Richard Spencer and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, too.
Their channels were among more than 25,000 shut down Monday by the online video sharing platform for violating its hate speech rules.
Dieudonnes page, which was full of videos agitating against Jews, had some 400,000 subscribers. In a Facebook post, he blamed Israeli pressures for the removal.
This deletion follows repeated violations of our YouTube community regulations, Google France said in a statement, AFP reported.
Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, many of the videos on the channel have agitated against Jews, French Union of Jewish Students President Noémie Madar told the French media.
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