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Actor Volker Bruch is one of the initiators of the #allesaufdentisch campaign: »Violation of the medical misinformation policy«
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The video platform YouTube has temporarily blocked the operator of the channel of the controversial campaign #allesaufdentisch according to SPIEGEL information.
You are not allowed to upload new videos for seven days.
YouTube justified the block with the fact that misinformation about the corona vaccination was distributed via a video on the channel.
A video that was deleted on Tuesday falsely claimed that the Covid-19 vaccination resulted in 13,000 deaths and that Covid-19 was just a mild cold.
"A video of the channel allesaufdentisch was blocked due to the violation of the medical misinformation policy," said a YouTube spokesman for SPIEGEL.
In the relevant guidelines on medical misinformation, YouTube states, for example, that no videos may be published that claim that mortality or symptoms of Covid are the same as those of a cold or flu.
"YouTube has clear guidelines as to what is allowed on the platform and what is not," said a company spokesman.
Vaccination false claim video stays online
Another # allesaufdentisch video claims that the vaccination causes harm to people who have recovered.
"You might as well take a gun and start shooting people," says the conversation between US director Sean Stone and cardiologist Peter A. Mc Cullough, whose false or misleading statements about Corona have already been made by fact checkers in the past have been refuted.
Neither of the two interviewees in the video provides evidence for the statement; it is scientifically incorrect.
However, the video is still online.
At the very end of the video, the two interlocutors seem to be almost thievingly happy that YouTube will probably "censor" their conversation, as they say.
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In fact, the video platform basically forbids the assertion "that the vaccine against COVID-19 is fatal for those who have been vaccinated," as the rules on medical misinformation say.
YouTube left questions from SPIEGEL about the specific video unanswered.
Critics have long accused YouTube of inconsistent and inconsistent implementation of its own rules.
YouTube has already removed individual videos from the #allesaufdentisch channel in the past.
YouTube later had to upload a video again after the initiators sued against deletion.
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