A freshman Ohio senator has lambasted Google’s YouTube for censoring critical information on the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a May 21 Homeland Security Governmental Affairs Committee hearing, Sen. Bernie Moreno (R, OH) condemned the Big Tech censorship of previous Senate testimony. Moreno highlighted YouTube’s deletion of videos of a 2021 senate hearing featuring testimony from Dr. Pierre Kory and Dr. Peter McCullough on the COVID-19 pandemic.
As reported by MRC at the time, YouTube (which is owned by Google) “removed video footage of a [December 2020] U.S. Senate hearing” in which Dr. McCullough testified on the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19. At the time, according to Breitbart, YouTube had said it would not “allow claims that contradicts local health authorities [sic] medical information about COVID-19, to include guidance on treatment, prevention or transmission guidance.”
In his 2025 testimony, McCullough declared: “Our hearing was actively suppressed, scrubbed off YouTube.”
Moreno responded: “So, just to clarify, not only were your viewpoints ignored, you were called a conspiracy theorist, a spreader of misinformation, somebody who didn’t know what they were doing by people who didn’t even take a science class in high school. And yet you’re a doctor, and you were completely ignored.”
McCullough is a cardiologist and epidemiologist who published the first synthesis of sequenced multi-drug treatment of COVID-19 in the American Journal of Medicine. Moreno joined the Senate in January of this year after a successful career as a business entrepreneur and crypto advocate.
YouTube’s censorship of McCullough followed its deletion of an entirely different Senate hearing on election integrity. YouTube also deleted McCullough’s interview on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast as noted in MRC’s exclusive CensorTrack database.
After receiving notice that YouTube censored McCullough’s Senate testimony, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) commented via tweet: “Apparently, the ‘doctors’ at Google know more about practicing medicine than heroic doctors who have the courage and compassion to actually treat COVID patients and save lives.”
Conservatives are under attack. Contact your representative and demand they join Senator Moreno in condemning Google’s relentless censorship. If you have been censored, contact us at the Media Research Center contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.
