Candace Owens gets demonetized on YouTube for transphobia, claims harassment

Candace OwensPhoto: Shutterstock Candace Owens, the right-wing trans-baiting online provocateur, says YouTube is harassing her. The video-sharing platform gave her “an option to delete every video that I’ve ever done pertaining to gender in which I have accurately gendered someone,” the host claimed on her Candace Owens Podcast, referring to individuals she’s misgendered and deadnamed in videos. YouTube tells a different story. The company blocked ads on “several videos on Candace Owen’s channel for violating our monetization policies, including those against hateful and derogatory content,” Google spokesperson Michael Aciman told NBC News. In other words, Owens wasn’t censored. She just can’t make money off her “hateful and derogatory” videos. While the platform’s guidelines don’t address misgendering explicitly, Aciman referred to deliberate misgendering as a potential violation of its monetization policy on hateful conduct. The guidelines say YouTube can prohibit advertising on a video that “promotes discrimination, disparages, or humiliates an individual or group of people,” including members of the LGBTQ+ community. The policy could result in enforcement against videos that include “deliberate deadnaming or misgendering of transgender individuals,” Aciman said. It’s the closest the platform has come to an outright ban on deadnaming and misgendering trans people. Owens said YouTube
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