Ken Jennings has had his podcast’s YouTube channel temporarily suspended after the video-sharing platform flagged an old episode as “hate speech.”
The Jeopardy! host has co-hosted The Ombinus Project podcast with his longtime friend, John Roderick, since 2017, and the pair also runs the Omnibus Futurelings Facebook page in connection with the show. On Tuesday (March 10), Roderick shared an update on the Facebook page, revealing how YouTube had banned the podcast channel.
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