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YouTube bans thousands of Chinese accounts to combat ‘coordinated influence operations’

YouTube bans thousands of Chinese accounts to combat ‘coordinated influence operations’

TechCrunch Industry News · TechCrunch

August 6, 20203m 42s

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YouTube has banned a large number of Chinese accounts it said were engaging in “coordinated influence operations” on political issues, the company announced today. 2,596 accounts from China alone were taken down from April to June, compared with 277 in the first three months of 2020. “These channels mostly uploaded spammy, non-political content, but a […]

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