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YouTube said on Wednesday it has terminated accounts associated with Dan Bongino. popular right-wing radio and Fox News hostnearly two weeks after he first suspended his channel for violating its Covid-19 misinformation policy.

A former New York City police officer and Specialized Secret Service agent, Mr. Bongino is a vocal critic of vaccine imperatives. His posts are consistently among the most read on Facebook. On YouTube, the main Dan Bongino channel had 882,000 subscribers. social knifea social media analytics firm.

YouTube said on Wednesday that one of Mr Bongino’s accounts was suspended for a week after he posted a video on January 14 saying that cloth and surgical masks were useless in stopping the spread of Covid. misinformation policy.

Last Thursday, before the seven-day suspension expired, a second account associated with Mr Bongino posted another video repeating his claim about the masks’ effectiveness. This violated the misinformation policy once again and violated Google’s terms of service as it attempted to circumvent the original suspension by publishing the content on a separate channel.

After Mr Bongino posted another video on Tuesday – while his second suspension is still active – YouTube has decided to permanently remove both of his channels as the company tries to circumvent its rules.

“We terminated Dan Bongino’s channels for violating our terms of service by posting a video while there was an active strike and suspension on the account,” YouTube, a unit of Google, said in a statement. The company clarified that Mr. Bongino is not allowed to use, own or create other YouTube channels.

Mr. Bongino did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.

Last week, Mr. Bongino released a podcast episode titled “I Dare To Do This To YouTube”. At the show, he promised to continue posting videos about his claims about masks and dared his company to take action.

In a video on Rumble, a YouTube competitor popular with right-wing viewers, Mr Bongino showed an email he claimed was sent to a YouTube official. He wrote in the email that he knew it was only “a matter of time” before YouTube tried to “mute” him.

“I anxiously awaited this moment,” he wrote. Mr Bongino also said that he is an investor on Rumble and has twice as many followers there than on YouTube. “I challenge you to do something about it.”