Google Removed 210 YouTube Channels for Coordinated Activity Related to Hong Kong

Twitter and Facebook made similar moves earlier this week

YouTube got caught in the China-Hong Kong fray from earlier this week, as parent company Google revealed that it disabled 210 channels on the video site.

Shane Huntley of Google Security’s Threat Analysis Group discussed the removals in a blog post, writing, “Earlier this week, as part of our ongoing efforts to combat coordinated influence operations, we disabled 210 channels on YouTube when we discovered that channels in this network behaved in a coordinated manner while uploading videos related to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong.

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