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Russia threatens YouTube (and Germany)

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Russia threatens YouTube (and Germany)

A dark new turn on the authoritarian internet. PLUS: Your pushback on the Facebook Files

Casey Newton
Sep 30, 2021
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Russia threatens YouTube (and Germany)

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Photo illustration of the YouTube logo. (Alexander Shatov / Unsplash)
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On Wednesday, YouTube banned vaccine misinformation. The company had already banned misinformation related to the COVID-19 vaccine, and removed some 130,000 videos under that policy, but the company found that “false claims about the coronavirus vaccines spill over into misinformation about vaccines in general, and we're now…

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