Discussion

• @googleeurope @googleeurope on x

  Due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, we're blocking YouTube channels connected to RT and Sputnik across Europe, effective immediately. It'll take time for our systems to fully ramp up. Our teams continue to monitor the situation around the clock to take swift action.

• @lauraedelson2 Laura Edelson on x

  As someone who studies misinformation, the past week has been a masterclass in how positive actors with a strong information operation and tech platforms being (somewhat) sensible can create an environment in which misinformation struggles to take hold. A 🧵.

• @fedorovmykhailo @fedorovmykhailo on x

  Meta is stepping up to shut down Russian lies. When will @YouTube? We are calling on @Google to deplatform Russian state media in the strongest possible terms. @susanwojcicki @sundarpichai

• @broderick Ryan Broderick on x

  Interesting to find out that during every radicalized election, every genocide, every riot around the world over the last 10 years, huge tech platforms could have swiftly identified disinformation and malicious propaganda and paused their distribution of it, but they didn't. http…

• @jimwaterson Jim Waterson on x

  YouTube has geoblocked RT from viewers in the UK, seemingly as part of a Europe-wide ban prompted by EU demands. Which means RT is currently on British TV screens (for now, pending Ofcom) but not on the main online streaming video platform. https://twitter.com/...

• @eliothiggins Eliot Higgins on x

  What you get if you visit Russia Today's YouTube channel from the UK https://www.youtube.com/c/RT https://twitter.com/...

• @kolga Marcus Kolga on x

  Please remove RT from your North American platforms too @Google @YouTube https://twitter.com/...

• @americascomic John Field on x

  I always wondered how these platforms could all drive off ISIS ten years ago and yet every other bad community since was uncontainable. https://twitter.com/...

• @ezralevant Ezra Levant on x

  But why have you chosen not to block YouTube channels connected to the Chinese Communist Party? Are European victims more valuable to you than Chinese victims? https://twitter.com/...

• @lauraedelson2 Laura Edelson on x

  TECH PLATFORMS: They're not totally beefing it! They deserve credit for blocking RT and Sputnik in Europe. But not blocking long-time spreaders of misinformation globally when the government that controls them is actively trying to lie about their war atrocities is... NUTS. 5/8

• @binzimation Lindsay Thompson on x

  The devastating effects of unbridled misinformation will become increasingly clearer in the coming days. https://twitter.com/...

• @ayeshaasiddiqi Ayesha A. Siddiqi on x

  in large part bc it was right wing propaganda that either served their interests (virality) or matched their world view (people severely misapprehend the world view of a particular generation of tech leaders) https://twitter.com/...

• @elilake Eli Lake on x

  My concern with this is that it betrays a lack of confidence. None of Russia's propaganda or bribery could overcome the effect Putin's deranged speech or the heroism of Ukrainians had on European public opinion. Better to ridicule Russian lies, not censor them. https://twitter.co…

• @evacukier Eva Cukier on x

  In Russia misinformation and censorship are reaching a peak, and comparable to the worst dictatorships. Media closed, critics persecuted, hugely repressive legislation in the making. https://twitter.com/...

• @drewcurtis Drew Curtis on x

  .@Google: explain your carve out for North America https://twitter.com/...

• @blackamazon @blackamazon on x

  Well when they saw no one would hold them to task to protect the targets? Why would they and they now have the benefit or the racist memory hole https://twitter.com/...

• @carolecadwalla Carole Cadwalladr on x

  RT has been the most successful news channel on @youtube for years. Google has fed Russian propaganda to millions upon millions of people & directly profited from enabling the Kremlin to fulfil its foreign policy goals. https://twitter.com/...

• @fedorovmykhailo @fedorovmykhailo on x

  Russia blindfolds Russian people and kills Ukrainian children. @YouTube, we ask you to act: block the main propaganda channel — Russia24 for all YouTube users in Russia and worldwide. We have to stop this evil machine!

• @pewjournalism @pewjournalism on x

  In today's news: - YouTube blocks Kremlin-backed media outlets RT and Sputnik in Europe - Insider and Axel Springer invest in new podcast company Spooler - Twitter to label tweets linking to Russian state-affiliated media & more: https://www.pewresearch.org/ ...

• @wandrme Seth Miller on x

  The half-assedness of only blocking it in Europe is most unfortunate. Propaganda is propaganda, regardless of where it is viewed. https://twitter.com/...

• @alexbward Alex Ward on x

  Zelenskyy sends letter to @YouTube's CEO Susan Wojcicki and @Google's Sundar Pichai to block or remove Russian TV and other services from their platforms https://twitter.com/...

• @satariano Adam Satariano on x

  Russian authorities have now demanded that YouTube and TikTok lift restrictions on RT and Sputnik. Twitter and Facebook are already restricted inside Russia. YouTube could be next. https://rkn.gov.ru/...