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YouTube permanently bans Fox News host Dan Bongino for posting covid misinformation

The conservative media figure already has a bigger following on video streaming platform Rumble

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Updated January 28, 2022 at 12:42 p.m. EST|Published January 26, 2022 at 5:21 p.m. EST
Dan Bongino in Stuart, Fla., in March. (Calla Kessler for The Washington Post)
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The conservative media figure’s name is Dan Bongino. An earlier version of this article misspelled his first name. This article has been updated.

Google-owned YouTube said it had permanently banned prominent conservative media figure Dan Bongino from its site after he repeatedly broke its rules on posting coronavirus misinformation.

Bongino, who hosts a show on Fox News in addition to talk radio shows and online broadcasts, had been given a strike and a week-long suspension from YouTube earlier in January for saying in one of his videos that masks were useless. He uploaded another video later in the month that also broke the platform’s rules on coronavirus misinformation. When he tried to upload a third video, the company banned him permanently.