YouTube bans Steve Bannon's War Room podcast channel

YouTube on Friday said it banned the channel of Steve Bannon's popular War Room podcast, after it repeatedly violated the Google-owned platform's rules.

The ban came hours after the former White House chief strategist had Rudy Guiliani, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, on the program following the violent insurgency at the US Capitol earlier this week. The riot left five people dead as rioters breached the building to disrupt the certification of Joe Biden as the next US president.

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