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Google plays politics with China as it quietly bans state-sponsored YouTube accounts

Google plays politics with China as it quietly bans state-sponsored YouTube accounts

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https://thenextweb.com/facebook/2019/08/23/google-plays-politics-with-china-as-it-quietly-bans-state-sponsored-youtube-accounts/

Google yesterday announced it’d banned 210 YouTube accounts “related to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong” and the discovery was “consistent with recent observations and actions related to China announced by Facebook and Twitter.”

If you’re not an avid reader of social media company blogs, let me clear things up for you: Google banned 210 accounts that the People’s Republic of China was using to spread disinformation and propaganda about the protests and protesters in Hong Kong.

Google plays politics with China as it quietly bans state-sponsored YouTube accounts

Aug 23, 2019, 7:16pm UTC
https://thenextweb.com/facebook/2019/08/23/google-plays-politics-with-china-as-it-quietly-bans-state-sponsored-youtube-accounts/ > Google yesterday announced it’d banned 210 YouTube accounts “related to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong” and the discovery was “consistent with recent observations and actions related to China announced by Facebook and Twitter.” > If you’re not an avid reader of social media company blogs, let me clear things up for you: Google banned 210 accounts that the People’s Republic of China was using to spread disinformation and propaganda about the protests and protesters in Hong Kong.