Video-sharing giant YouTube announced that it has removed Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam channel from its platform, the Jewish Journal reported Tuesday.
"We have strict policies prohibiting hate speech on YouTube, and terminate any channel that repeatedly or egregiously violates those policies," a YouTube spokesperson said in a statement.
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"After updating our guidelines last year to better address content that spreads hateful conspiracy theories, we saw a 5x spike in video removals and have terminated over 25,000 channels for violating our hate speech policies," the statement added.
The NOI channel was taken down on Oct. 2 for violating YouTube's hate speech terms, and in particular, for advancing a claim that members of a group are part of an evil conspiracy theory.
Farrakhan, a racist demagogue and dangerous fundamentalist to some and a heroic crusader for black rights to others, has repeatedly uttered bigoted comments against Jews in the past.
Last year, in a speech denying his hatred for Jews raised ire by branding them as "Satanic Jews."
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Farrakhan has been banned by Facebook and is barred from Britain and mostly blocked from mainstream TV for his long record as an unrepentant merchant of anti-Semitism and homophobia.
i24NEWS contributed to this report.
