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/MissLeaP Jul 22 '25

When will they wipe out all those right-wing propaganda channels, though? I'm far more worried about those channels that casually promote hateful content because it works well with their shitty algorithm than china or russia propaganda channels

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u/mdavis360 Jul 22 '25

The fact that Google essentially pays for these crackpots lifestyles by monetization is sickening. Google is basically responsible for all of this. They should never fund this shit.

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u/Secondchance002 Jul 22 '25

Rogan, the pedonald defender needs to be wiped first.

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u/MissLeaP Jul 22 '25

He's part of the problem, but not the root

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u/MichaelMeier112 Jul 22 '25

They did remove a few thousands of Russian linked account so many of those are gone

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u/MissLeaP Jul 22 '25

Many more of those are regular private channels as well, though

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u/MichaelMeier112 Jul 22 '25

Yes, but weren’t a ton of those funded by the Russians, like Tenet Media a few years ago. Maybe similars were removed?

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u/alezio000 Jul 22 '25

I'm more worried about fascists than Chinese people promoting their country