Breach of Contract Plaintiff Sues YouTube for Taking Down His Channel

YouTube Channel owner Hugo Torbet had his channel taken down Oct. 2 after Google reviewers contacted him to say they found his content violated their policies on medical misinformation, said his Oct. 11 breach of contract complaint in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. At issue, said his complaint, was a documentary he produced and posted in November comparing the government’s “catastrophic” COVID-19 response with the Nazi atrocities unearthed at the Nuremberg trials. In his appeal, Torbet, a lawyer in San Francisco, accused Google “of falsely representing that a human being had reviewed the subject video content, and of acting at the behest of the government,” said the lawsuit. “These are serious accusations, and a reasonable person so accused would have denied them if they were not true.” Google didn’t comment.