Google pulls 2,500 China-linked YouTube channels over disinformation on video-sharing platform

Google says it has deleted more than 2,500 YouTube channels tied to China as part of its effort to weed out disinformation on the video-sharing platform.The Alphabet-owned company said the channels were removed between April and June “as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to China”.The channels generally posted “spammy, non-political content,” but a small subset touched on politics, the company said in a quarterly bulletin on disinformation operations…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3096229/google-pulls-2500-china-linked-youtube-channels-over-disinformation