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/Common_Collection678 Jul 21 '25

A little late, don’t ya think?

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u/yumyumtree_throwaway Jul 22 '25

You gotta hand it to Google though, they’re the only ones with the balls to actually try to fight against the hostile disinformation campaign. I have yet to see the same from Meta, X, Tiktok, even Reddit is infested with propaganda bots.

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u/KnockturnalNOR Jul 22 '25

iirc Twitter used to ban millions of Chinese and Russian bots every day before being bought up. I suppose X still deals with them but not nearly to the same degree