YouTube’s CEO has said Logan Paul has not done enough to be banned from the platform following the fallout from his Japanese “suicide forest” video.

Speaking at the Code Media conference in California, Susan Wojcicki, said the disgraced vlogger hasn’t met YouTube’s “three strike” criteria for being removed from the site.

The executive also defended YouTube’s approach to the controversy saying that it needed to be “consistent” and apply its rules “like a code of law”.

Her comments come after more than 600,000 people have signed a Change.org petition calling for Paul’s 16-million-subscriber YouTube channel to be removed after he posted a video showing the body of a suspected suicide victim.

Asked why YouTube had not removed the account, Ms Wojcicki responded: “Basically to answer your question, he hasn't done anything that would cause those three strikes and so we can't just be pulling people off of our platform.

“If we did just pull people off of our platform because...