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A longer interview with David Icke has been via live-Stream on YouTube on Monday

YouTube all the Conspiracy Theory videos falsely linking coronavirus, symptoms of 5G networks has forbidden.

The Google-owned service is now deleting videos that violate the policy. It had previously been limited to reducing the frequency he recommended you in his Next section.

The Move follows a live-Stream interview with conspiracy theorist David Icke on Monday, in which he connected the Technology to the pandemic.

"YouTube", said the video would be deleted.

During The Interview , Mr. Icke, who falsely claimed that it "is a connection between the 5G and the health crisis."

And in its response to reports of 5G masts set On Fire in England and Northern Ireland , he replied: "If 5G pursued and achieved, where you want to take it, human life as we know it is over. so people have to make a decision. "

Several users requested then additional attacks on 5G towers in the comments appeared, in addition to The Feed .

Mr Icke also claimed that a Corona-Virus vaccine, if developed, would control include "nano-Technology for micro-chips" that would allow people to. He added that Bill Gates - who brought helps Fund Covid-19-vaccine-Research - should go to prison. His views went unchallenged for much of the two-and-a-half-hour show.

Policy violation

The Interview was watched by approximately 65,000 people, as it was streamed, some of which clicked an on-screen button to trigger payments to your live-chat-reactions stand out.

just YouTube deleted the content after The Session had ended, in spite of knowledge of the mission, while he went on.

He changed his rules after The Bbc asked the question, why the video was allowed.

"We have clear guidelines that prohibit videos that promote medically unjustified methods, in order to prevent the Corona Virus is said to take the place of seeking medical treatment, and we remove videos violating these policies when flagged to us," said a spokeswoman from YouTube to The Bbc .

"Well, all of the content that denies the existence or transfer of Covid-19, as proposed by The Who [world health organization] and local health authorities, is in breach of the YouTube policies.

"This applies to conspiracy theories, which claim that the symptoms are caused by 5G.

"in the case of content that user might have to reduce in harmful ways, we recommendations. We will continue to assess the impact of these videos on the communities around The World . "

users who break repeatedly The Rules now face, it is prevented that the situation for the use of YouTube, the Live-tool.

The law firm can prevent you to earn that repeat offenders out of money, and said it would channels terminate as a Last Resort .

In this case, YouTube allowed The Interview with the host to keep revenue about The Super -chat tool, while the video was still online.

But it is his own cut of the proceeds to charitable purposes, the involved channel "under review".

Whatsapp limitation

the YouTube-rules update coincides with the new restrictions.

Whatsapp in the plot to slow down the spread of MIS-information about your network

Facebook app is the limitation of the user is only able to give us a message to a chat at a time when the same post has already been shared five times by the larger community. Such posts are marked with double-arrows to make your status known.

Previously, limited had the app, such messages can be passed to five different chats had introduced a limit it first in the year 2018 to combat the spread of disinformation in India.

"We have recently seen a significant increase in the level of forwarding, users have told us, can be overwhelming feeling and can contribute to the spread of misinformation," she said, explain you move the latest.

"We believe it is important to slow down to keep the dissemination of these messages to below Whatsapp a place for the personal interview. "

Unfounded theories

conspiracy theories linking 5G signals to the Corona-Virus-pandemic is more widespread, although there is no evidence that cell phone signals a health risk.

Fact -checking charity Full Fact .

Vodafone and Three have reported attacks on Telecom equipment in the last few days

An incorrectly 5G suggests the immune system, the claims of The Other , incorrectly, that The Virus is somehow communicating over The Network , the radio waves, and the victims choose, the acceleration of their dissemination presses.

While 5G is not used with different frequencies to its predecessors, it is important to recognize that the area is involved, even "ionizing", and it is energy lacks sufficient.

Earlier this year, researchers from The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection.

While it is recommended, somewhat closer limits for the transfer of functions of the Mobile Phone itself to minimize any chance of damage through human tissue is being heated, his crucial insight was that there was no evidence that either 5G networks, or older systems could be the cause of cancer or other types of the disease.

The Second theory seems to be based on The Work of a Nobel prize-winning biologist, who suggested that bacteria could radio waves to generate.

But this remains a controversial idea. In any case, Covid-19 is a virus rather than a bacterium.

There is another big Problem with these two theories. Coronavirus spreads in British cities, in which the 5G has yet to be used, and to adopt in countries such as Japan and Iran, the still, the Technology .

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Source of news: bbc.com