YouTube removes Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam channel
Posted on 07 October 2020
Organization headed by anti-Semitic leader violated hate speech guidelines, company says; accounts belonging to some of group’s members still active.
JTA — YouTube has removed the video channel of the Nation of Islam, the organization led by Louis Farrakhan.
YouTube said it removed the channel on October 2, citing its policies against hate speech, according to the Jewish Journal.
“We have strict policies prohibiting hate speech on YouTube, and terminate any channel that repeatedly or egregiously violates those policies,” said the statement.
YouTube said it has removed 25,000 channels for hate speech.
Some individual accounts of Nation of Islam members are still up, with tens of thousands of followers.
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