James Charles: YouTube temporarily demonetises beauty influencer

Source: BBC News:

April 20, 2021 at 11:05

GETTY IMAGES / James Charles admitted to two incidents where he came to be aware that the person he was exchanging messages with was underage

YouTube has temporarily demonetised the channel of beauty influencer James Charles.

Earlier this month, he admitted to sending sexually explicit messages to two 16-year-old boys.

YouTube confirmed to the BBC that the 21-year-old - who has 25 million subscribers to his YouTube channel - had been temporarily removed from their Partnership Program.

The program allows YouTubers to make money from their content.

YouTube did not say how long his channel would be demonetised for.

A YouTube spokesperson said the company had applied their creator responsibility policy, which states: "If we see that a creator's on- and/or off-platform behaviour harms our users, community, employees or ecosystem, we may take action to protect the community."

This is the second company to re-evaluate its partnership with the influencer.

On Friday, Mr Charles and cosmetics company Morphe announced the end of their partnership.

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