YouTube lifts ban on vaccine passport critic Naomi Wolf following media scrutiny
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Outspoken lockdown and vaccine passport critic Dr. Naomi Wolf has had her Daily Clout YouTube channel restored by the social media giant less than a week after taking it down over apparent “claims about COVID-19 vaccinations that contradict expert consensus” made in the interview.
Wolf, an author, political commentator and self-described “life-long Democrat,” originally saw her political discussion channel removed by YouTube on August 24, with the Big Tech firm claiming that a video featuring Wolf and mass-vaccination critic Leslie Manookian violated the company’s “medical misinformation policy.”
Manookian is the founder and president of Health Freedom Defense Fund, “a non-profit which seeks to rectify health injustice through education, advocacy, and legal challenges to unjust mandates, laws, and policies that undermine our health freedoms and human rights.”
During the interview, Wolf and Manookian discussed the possible conflicts of interest found in the fact that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diease (NIAID), run by Chief Medical Adviser to the President Dr. Anthony Fauci, holds patents for the experimental COVID-19 vaccines, yet is part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) which has been actively encouraging the shots, The Epoch Times reported.
“We’re pleased to let you know that we’ve recently reviewed your YouTube account, and after taking another look, we can confirm that it is not in violation of our Terms of Service. We have lifted the suspension of your account, and it is once again active and operational,” YouTube’s communication read.
Wolf subsequently told The Epoch Times that the restoration of her channel was incomplete, with thousands of subscribers having been removed and hundreds of thousands of views vanishing from the video with which YouTube took umbrage.
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The NIAID is also under the umbrella of the National Institutes for Health (NIH), which allows its employees to receive up to $150,000 per year for each patent under their name.
Though the information discussed throughout the interview is publicly available, YouTube determined that either Wolf or Manookian had made “claims about COVID-19 vaccinations that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization (WHO),” which the company does not allow on its platform.
Wolf expressed her shock at the time of the YouTube ban, defending her actions as simply “reporting on successful legal efforts or legislative efforts to ban vaccine passports, to ban vaccine discrimination, or to change policy around mask mandates.”
Despite belonging to the political Left, Wolf acknowledged that “many credible important voices are being de-platformed, a good proportion on the right – I happen to be on the left.”
The author blasted the government for what she sees as collaboration with Big Tech to silence opposing voices: “I believe that government is not allowed to use private industry to go around the First Amendment … so if there’s any coordination there, that is unlawful and that’s what [the legal process of] discovery is for.”
“I think something very serious indeed is happening if a channel devoted to educating people from all walks of life, all political persuasions, every age, about democracy in America is closed down,” she continued. “That’s really serious.”
Just days after the ban was first imposed, on August 26 YouTube delivered another email to Wolf, who co-founded the Daily Clout channel, informing her that it had made a mistaken judgement, and that the account would be re-opened and the video reinstated.