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Tory MP David Davis has accused YouTube of censoring him after a video of a speech outlining concerns over vaccine passports was taken down from the site.
The former Brexit Secretary spoke at the Conservative Party Conference last week about his view that Covid certificates were 'illiberal' in that they demanded 'an ordinary British citizen produce our papers to do something which is normal in our daily lives.'
The 11-and-a-half-minute clip was initially uploaded by the campaign group Big Brother Watch, which had hosted the fringe event at which Mr Davis was speaking.
However, YouTube then removed footage of the speech, claiming it violated its policy on 'medical misinformation'.
In a notification email to Big Brother Watch, the platform said: 'YouTube doesn't allow claims about COVID-19 vaccinations that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization (WHO).'
Mr Davis slammed YouTube's claims regarding his speech as 'potentially libellous' and maintained that the speech was 'wholly accurate'.
A spokeswoman for Google, which owns YouTube, told MailOnline that 'sometimes we make the wrong call.'
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Tory MP David Davis has accused YouTube of censoring him after a video of a speech outlining concerns over vaccine passports was taken down from the site
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