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The latest tweets from @TeamYouTube. DownDetector showed a truly tremendous number of user reports of problems with YouTube, indicating the problem was widespread — the DownDetector graph peaked with more than 280,000 user reports in.
Twitter , YouTube and Facebook took action against the account of Steve Bannon's podcast on Thursday evening, after the former White House chief strategist called for the beheading of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert.
This widespread issue started at around 4 p.m. PT, with YouTube on Twitter confirming the problem. The company is “aware of the issue and working on a fix.” Given the timing, the outage is being. Twitter is down, apparently for users worldwide. Get the latest details on the major Twitter outage in our LIVE BREAKING NEWS COVERAGE.It is unclear why Twit.
In the video, Bannon says the heads of Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray should be displayed on pikes in front of the White House 'as a warning to federal bureaucrats.'
Twitter said it 'permanently suspended' the account, @WarRoomPandemic, for violating its policy against glorifying violence.
YouTube said it took down the video for breaking rules against inciting violence, and issued a strike against the account. Under the Google-owned video platform's three-strikes policy, the offender cannot upload videos for at least a week after the violation.
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Facebook, which Bannon used to livestream the podcast, said it removed two videos from his official page for breaking rules around inciting violence.
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Bannon didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
The takedowns come as the US anxiously awaits the results of Tuesday's presidential election. As vote count continues, tech giants have sought to police their platforms against misinformation and toxic content. Twitter and Facebook have flagged posts by President Donald Trump, who has baselessly claimed the election was marred by voter fraud. YouTube has been criticized for refusing to take down two videos by One America News, a far-right news organization that falsely declared victory for Trump.
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In response to the Bannon video on Thursday, YouTube spokesman Alex Joseph said, 'We will continue to be vigilant as we enforce our policies in the post-election period.'
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New Delhi [India], December 14 (ANI): Google's video streaming platform YouTube and several other features like Google Drive, and Gmail stopped functioning for several users across India on Monday evening.
This triggered several social media users to share memes on the YouTube outage which lead to the hashtag of 'YouTubeDown' trending on Twitter.
While some Twitter users expressed sadness over YouTube being down, others took the moment as an opportunity to share jokes and memes. YouTube is one of the most used applications by tech giant Google and is also the top entertainment service provider.
A similar outage was experienced on the platform last month when the users had experienced an issue with the video streaming platform. (ANI)