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/[deleted] Jul 22 '25 edited Jul 23 '25

Nope, still there, and just for anyone who isn't aware:

"Tim Pool, Dave Rubin and Benny Johnson published statements on Wednesday evening addressing allegations that a US content creation company [Tenet Media] they were associated with had been provided with nearly $10m from Russian state media employees to publish videos with messages in favour of Moscow’s interests and agenda, including over the war in Ukraine."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/05/tim-pool-benny-johnson-influencers-russia-disinformation

Tim Pool: "Ukraine is the enemy of this country. Ukraine is our enemy, being funded by the Democrats. I will stress this again: one of the greatest enemies of our nation right now is Ukraine. We should rescind all funding and financing, pull out all military support, and we should apologize to Russia."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wlUfIAIrZk

[Edit:] u/The_Corsac_Fox82 (account made Jun 3, 2025) defended Tim Pool, harassed/tried to discredit me for this comment, deleted all their replies here, and then blocked me after they realized it wasn't working. They also made comments like this trying to stir up racial division:

[Original link:] https://www.reddit.com/r/shreveport/comments/1m56wjd/comment/n49wp5r/

[Saved link:] https://www.reveddit.com/v/shreveport/comments/1m56wjd/looking_for_honest_feedback/n49wp5r/

u/The_Corsac_Fox82: "Subtle?excuse me? Subtle it is not subtle. The town is literally self segregated and much worse. Are you kidding or just that new. What threw me off is I'm from Miami and moved here 12 years ago and it's weird cause the African American folks are the racists and everyone else isn't. It's kinda crazy and sad."

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u/hofmann419 Jul 22 '25

For some context, here is Tim Pool literally saying "Ukraine is the enemy of this country. Ukraine is the enemy of our country" and hitting the table in a fake fit of anger.

For totally not being a Russian asset, he surely is doing a lot of propaganda work for them.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '25 edited Jul 22 '25

Great link and timestamp. And straight from the source. Thanks!

The comments consistently call him out for the shilling, and the "Return YouTube Dislike" browser extension has that video's like/dislike ratio at 5.9K / 14K currently lmao.

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u/Modus-Tonens Jul 22 '25

I support the return of not only the dislike button, but the star ranking system. I don't wanna just say I dislike a video, I wanna give it one star.