John Ioannidis, a Stanford University epidemiology professor and researcher, conducted an interview with Dr. Knut Wittkowski that was eventually removed from YouTube. YouTube stated that the interview violated its guidelines governing COVID-19 medical misinformation, which states the platform “doesn’t allow content that spreads medical misinformation that contradicts the World Health Organization (WHO) or local health authorities’ medical information about Covid-19.” In the interview, Dr. Ioannidis challenges the data associated with widely accepted death rates from COVID-19 and criticizes the effectiveness of coronavirus lockdown measures.