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Reuters reports:
A Florida doctor known for spreading false claims about vaccines has sued Google LLC and its parent company Alphabet Inc for removing all of his content from their YouTube video-sharing platform with no advance notice, saying the move breached its terms of service.
In the lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court in San Francisco, Joseph Mercola asked the court to order Google to reinstate his YouTube account and to award unspecified money damages.
Mercola has been a leading figure in the nationwide anti-vaccine movement that has led some parents to forego vaccinating their children against preventable illnesses like measles based on false claims linking the shots to autism and other health problems.
Read the full article. The suit claims that YouTube didn’t give Mercola his “three strikes” before banning him over false claims about the COVID vaccines.
Most Covid-19 vaccine misinformation in the US is driven by 12 individuals, most of whom work in ‘alternative medicine’. Joseph Mercola, the leading member of the ‘dirty dozen’, is worth more than $100-million. At the height of South Africa’s Aids … https://t.co/VsL2brvIq7
— Daily Maverick (@dailymaverick) September 15, 2021
The dirty dozen include Joseph Mercola, Robert F. Kennedy Jnr, Ty and Charlene Bollinger, Sherri Tenpenny, Rizza Islam, Rashid Buttar, Erin Elizabeth, Sayer Ji and Kelly Brogan, Christiane Northrup, Ben Tapper, Kevin Jenkins, Clay Clark. Report them and take action to stop this,
— Medika Life (@medikalife) May 2, 2021
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— Westlaw Today (@WestlawToday) September 30, 2022