Sacha Baron Cohen shamed Google for keeping Donald Trump's YouTube account live after Facebook and Twitter banned him

• Actor and satirist Sacha Baron Cohen has called on Google's YouTube to follow other major social media platforms in banning or restricting US President Donald Trump's account.
• In a tweet posted on Monday, the "Borat" star wrote: "Trump's YouTube channel is STILL showing videos of his election lies to MILLIONS of people!"
• A host of social media platforms, including Twitter and Facebook, banned or restricted the President following the violent insurrection at the US Capitol last week.
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Sacha Baron Cohen has called on YouTube to "do the right thing" and join Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms in banning Donald Trump from its service.

The "Borat" star, who has become a vocal critic of social media platforms over the last year, tagged the CEOs of YouTube and parent company Google, Susan Wojcicki and Sundar Pichai respectively, in a tweet on Monday.

"Virtually every social media company has removed Trump ... EXCEPT YouTube," Baron Cohen wrote. "Trump's YouTube channel is STILL showing videos of his election lies to MILLIONS of people!"

He added: "Retweet and tell @Google, @sundarpichai, @YouTube, @SusanWojcicki - do the right thing!"

The move comes after Google's newly formed workers' union penned a critical open letter to YouTube executives last Thursday, accusing the tech giant of fostering fascism and failing to act in the aftermath of the siege by pro-Trump rioters on the US Capitol, which has so far been linked to the deaths of five people.

The letter criticized YouTube for removing a video of a speech Trump gave ahead of the riots, as other platforms did, but not taking further action.

The Alphabet Workers Union was officially formed last Monday and comprises more than 600 employees from Google's parent company Alphabet.

"YouTube refuses to hold Donald Trump accountable to the platform's own rules by choosing only to remove one video instead of removing him from the platform entirely," the letter read.

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YouTube remains one of the few major platforms not to restrict President Trump after the Capitol riots. Twitter banned him permanently from its service, Facebook suspended him indefinitely, YouTube rival Twitch removed his account, and a host of other services restricted his online accounts and adjacent accounts.

YouTube recently introduced a new version of its "three strike" policy, with users being cut off from posting for one week following their first strike, and two weeks if they receive a second strike within the same 90-day period.

If a channel receives three strikes within the same 90-day period, it will be permanently removed from the platform, the firm added. confirming the strikes would stand even if users delete the content that warranted one in the first place.

Business Insider approached YouTube for comment.