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YouTube suspends The Hill’s popular show Rising for 7 days for playing Trump clip
YouTube’s policies continue to affect news reporting.
YouTube ripper Yout.com is fighting back against blocking
Pushing back against censorship orders.
Eight state AGs launch investigation into China’s TikTok
The investigation focuses on its “harm” to kids.
South Africa enforces sweeping internet censorship law to tackle “hate speech”
And who decides what’s “hate speech?”
YouTube demonetizes RT and other Russian state-affiliated channels
YouTube is going against its own policies based on what it says are “extraordinary circumstances.”
Attempt to use copyright claims to unmask Twitter user who criticized billionaires faces pushback
Copyright claims are increasingly used in an attempt to suppress speech.
Google Drive flags benign metadata files for copyright violations
Google scans the files you upload to Drive and often makes mistakes.
Twitter begins censoring posts documenting Russia’s Ukraine invasion
Twitter said its overzealous censorship was an “error.”
Rumble announces large popular YouTube channels are joining the growing platform
Rumble is pulling in a diverse range of lifestyle content.
Maajid Nawaz to host his show on Odysee
Nawaz chose Odysee because it’s decentralized infrastructure will give him ownership of his content.
YouTube to censor “new misinformation” preemptively
The tech giant plans to use machine learning to become “faster and more accurate at catching…viral misinfo narratives.”
YouTube CEO: We boost “experts” so that users don’t see content from creators who “had an opinion yesterday”
YouTube executives continue to neglect the voices that helped build the platform.