YouTube announced Friday that it has begun blocking access globally to channels associated with Russian state-funded media. YouTube, which is owned by Alphabet (GOOGL) (GOOG) unit Google, announced the move in a Twitter post and said that while the change is effective immediately, “we expect our systems to take time to ramp up.” YouTube also said it was now removing content about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that violates its policy that “minimizes or trivializes well-documented violent events.” Read More...
YouTube announced Friday that it has begun blocking access globally to channels associated with Russian state-funded media. YouTube, which is owned by Alphabet (GOOGL) (GOOG) unit Google, announced the move in a Twitter post and said that while the change is effective immediately, “we expect our systems to take time to ramp up.” YouTube also said it was now removing content about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that violates its policy that “minimizes or trivializes well-documented violent events.”
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