Russia threatens YouTube (and Germany)

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Sep 30, 2021

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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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