Dan Bongino has been booted from YouTube.
The conservative pundit and Fox News personality has been banned from the social media platform for ignoring a suspension, a spokesperson for YouTube told the Daily News Thursday.
Bongino was slapped with a seven-day suspension on his clip show channel on Jan. 20 for violating the website’s COVID-19 misinformation policies after posting a video that falsely called masks “useless” against the virus.
Despite the time out, he continued to post from another account anyway.
“When a channel receives a strike, it is against our Terms of Service to post content or use another channel to circumvent the suspension,” the spokesperson told The News.
Bongino is now banned from using, owning or creating any other YouTube channels.
“See ya, YouTube communists,” he wrote on Instagram before linking to his page on Rumble, a Canadian social media platform popular among conservatives who claim they are being censored by mainstream pages, including former President Donald Trump, Reps. Devin Nunes and Jim Jordan, Dinesh D’Souza and Fox News host Sean Hannity.
After facing backlash for allowing misinformation — COVID-19 and otherwise — to proliferate, social media sites have begun cracking down. Trump was permanently suspended from Twitter after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was kicked off Twitter earlier this month.
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