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Title    YouTube Disables 210 Channels for Spreading "Disinformation" about the Hong Kong Protests
Date    Friday August 23 2019, @03:29PM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the quantity!=quality dept.
https://soylentnews.org/politics/article.pl?sid=19/08/23/1018259

takyon writes:

YouTube Disables 210 Channels That Spread Disinformation About Hong Kong Protests

YouTube said on Thursday that its site was used to spread disinformation about the mass protests in Hong Kong, days after Twitter and Facebook cracked down on thousands of China-backed accounts that compared the demonstrators to terrorists and accused them of being at the whim of foreign interests.

In a blog post, YouTube said it had disabled 210 channels this week that had uploaded videos about the protests in Hong Kong. The channels had worked in a coordinated fashion to spread disinformation, the company said. YouTube, which is owned by Google, did not specify when the channels were taken down.

Shane Huntley, a software engineer on Google's threat analysis team, said the channels that were removed were "consistent with recent observations and actions related to China announced by Facebook and Twitter."

Facebook and Twitter said on Monday that they had removed thousands of accounts that originated in China and that acted together to amplify messages and images portraying Hong Kong's protesters as violent and extreme. It was the first time that the social media companies had removed accounts linked to disinformation in China. At the time, Twitter said it had "reliable evidence to support that this is a coordinated state-backed operation."

Also at The Guardian and Reuters.

See also: The People's War Is Coming in Hong Kong
Hong Kong: British consulate employee Simon Cheng detained in China
China's arrest of a Hong Kong man puts spotlight on a controversial shared rail station

Previously: Extradition Law Amendments Protested in Hong Kong
One Million People Protest a Proposed Extradition Law in Hong Kong; Gov't Acquiesces, for Now
How Hong Kong's Protestors Are Hindering (and Hijacking) the Tools of Surveillance
China Warns Hong Kong Protesters Against "Playing With Fire"
China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding
Hong Kong Airport Paralysed for a Second Day by Protesters; US Naval Ships Blocked


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  1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
  2. "YouTube Disables 210 Channels That Spread Disinformation About Hong Kong Protests" - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/technology/youtube-hong-kong-protests-china-disinformation.html
  3. "Twitter and Facebook cracked down" - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/technology/hong-kong-protests-china-disinformation-facebook-twitter.html
  4. "blog post" - https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/maintaining-integrity-our-platforms/
  5. "The Guardian" - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/23/hong-kong-protests-youtube-takes-down-200-channels-spreading-disinformation
  6. "Reuters" - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests-youtube/youtube-finds-influence-campaign-tied-to-hong-kong-protests-idUSKCN1VC2KO
  7. "The People's War Is Coming in Hong Kong" - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/opinion/hong-kong-protest.html
  8. "Hong Kong: British consulate employee Simon Cheng detained in China" - https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/21/asia/hong-kong-simon-cheng-intl-hnk/index.html
  9. "China's arrest of a Hong Kong man puts spotlight on a controversial shared rail station" - https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/22/asia/hong-kong-uk-arrest-intl-hnk/index.html
  10. "Extradition Law Amendments Protested in Hong Kong" - https://soylentnews.org/politics/article.pl?sid=19/06/10/2335202
  11. "One Million People Protest a Proposed Extradition Law in Hong Kong; Gov't Acquiesces, for Now" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/06/17/0311214
  12. "How Hong Kong's Protestors Are Hindering (and Hijacking) the Tools of Surveillance" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/07/28/0047249
  13. "China Warns Hong Kong Protesters Against "Playing With Fire"" - https://soylentnews.org/politics/article.pl?sid=19/08/06/2249213
  14. "China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding" - https://soylentnews.org/politics/article.pl?sid=19/08/13/0432257
  15. "Hong Kong Airport Paralysed for a Second Day by Protesters; US Naval Ships Blocked" - https://soylentnews.org/breakingnews/article.pl?sid=19/08/14/1316210
  16. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=35831

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