YouTube eliminated practically 11,000 channels and accounts linked to state propaganda campaigns from China, Russia and different international locations within the second quarter of 2025.

Supply: Google, which is actively preventing world disinformation operations by way of its Risk Evaluation Group, as reported by CNBC

Particulars: Greater than 7,700 of the channels have been linked to China. They posted content material in Chinese language and English, supported the Chinese language authorities, glorified President Xi Jinping and commented on US international coverage. One other 2,000 channels have been Russian. Their content material supported Russia whereas criticising Ukraine, NATO and Western international locations.

In Could, Google additionally shut down a community linked to the Russian state media outlet RT. This included 20 YouTube channels, 4 promoting accounts and a weblog on the Blogger platform. RT financed the creation of content material by way of the Tennessee-based firm Tenet Media and the authors included well-known conservative bloggers who supported Donald Trump.

By the way, YouTube started blocking RT again in March 2022 after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Along with China and Russia, within the second quarter of 2025, Google detected affect campaigns from Azerbaijan, Iran, Türkiye, Israel, Romania and Ghana. A few of them have been associated to the battle between Israel and Palestine.

Within the first quarter, greater than 23,000 accounts have been deleted. In the meantime, Meta reported the removing of 10 million faux profiles posing as well-known content material creators.

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