r/technology • u/Regular_Eggplant_248 • Jul 21 '25

Social Media YouTube wipes out thousands of propaganda channels linked to China, Russia, others

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/21/youtube-channels-propaganda-china-russia.html
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u/MoneyTalks45 Jul 21 '25

Seemed to have missed Fox News, Newsmax, Oann, etc. it’s okay though. Maybe next round in 2048.

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u/Ikea_desklamp Jul 22 '25

Only foreign propaganda, duh. Domestic propaganda (which Google undoubtedly has a hand in funding) is a ok!

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u/lurkinglurkerwholurk Jul 22 '25 edited Jul 22 '25

Don’t forget propaganda supportive of local American interests. Gotta leave viewpoints aligned with popular government-decided nationalist sediments alone!

(edit: Heh, just checked. China Observer, the one run by the Fa Lu Gong cult is still up and running)

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u/sparky8251 Jul 22 '25

Yeah... Fa Lu Gong is all it takes to show this isnt about really combating "propaganda", its war consent manufacturing. We want to intervene in the russia ukraine stuff for money, so need to cut off opinions against it for profits to go up. We want war with China too, so... Same there. Same for Iran... War, war war. Thats all this is about, making people VERY comfortable with tons of war.

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u/Trollsense Jul 28 '25

Nobody wants war with China, but 12 years of unbridled economic warfare against the west can certainly piss folks off. Frankly, both the US and China are unpopular globally.

I don't have a problem with Fa Lu Gong pushing content, they aren't a nation state.

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u/Kastar_Troy Jul 22 '25

This . Obviously under direction of Trump, they're trying to bury more of the truth.

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u/bozzie_ Jul 22 '25

Both are bad.

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u/sho_biz Jul 22 '25

but the CIA ICE will only kill dissapear you in a white van for pointing out one of them :P

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u/Dismal-Bobcat-823 Jul 22 '25

Bro.. he said fox news..newsmax, oan... 

That IS Russian propaganda. Everyone knows that. 

None of those people can come up with their ideas themselves, c'mon now

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u/Catfish-throwaway666 Jul 22 '25

Don’t forget prageru and turning point usa!

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u/HammerSmashedAsss Jul 22 '25

Whitehouse.gov

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u/Creative_Cotton Jul 22 '25

You misunderstand. The channels were not wiped because of their content or affiliation, but because they didn't pay protection.

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u/MoneyTalks45 Jul 22 '25

He’s right folks

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u/bozzie_ Jul 22 '25

He really isn't.

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u/NoSchool3950 Jul 22 '25

Don’t forget CNN

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u/Mickenfox Jul 22 '25

It's OK. Now that most of the checks on the executive branch of the US government have been removed, the next Democratic president can just find a way to shut these down.

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u/Interesting-Tea9635 Jul 22 '25

Yeah, because left media isn't propaganda, stupid.