The Wuhan lab leak, a theory now accepted by the head of the World Health Organization, was also once shadow banned as a result of it being declared a “conspiracy theory” by fact checkers. On YouTube, this manifests itself in the form of content from mainstream news networks and regime institutions appearing at the top of search results, with dissenting narratives buried deep down the list, if they appear at all.Īs we previously highlighted, the co-founder of one of the world’s leading ‘fact checker’ organizations, which presents itself as a supreme authority on which sources of information can be trusted, labeled the now completely confirmed genuine Hunter Biden laptop story a “hoax”. YouTube’s Brandon Feldman responded by assuring the group it was doing more to elevate “authoritative sources.” In other words, no one cares about boring, hyper-partisan content put out by dubious ‘fact checker’ groups, therefore their more successful competition must be censored! “I think most news organizations are extremely frustrated with your platform,” she added. We have had a lot of experience with YouTube making videos of fact-checking content. “YouTube does not seem to raise accurate, credible information in its algorithms. This is a significant concern among our global fact-checking community,” the IFCN previously wrote in a letter to YouTube.ĭuring the conference itself, Angie Drobnic Holan, editor-in-chief of PolitiFact, complained that fact checker groups are struggling because no one is interested in watching their content. “As an international network of fact-checking organizations, we monitor how lies spread online - and every day, we see that YouTube is one of the major conduits of online disinformation and misinformation worldwide. The censorship demand was made during the GlobalFact 9, a fact-checking conference organized by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). ‘Fact checkers’ are demanding that YouTube censor more videos for “misinformation,” with one of the reasons being that no one is watching their content. Support my sponsor – Turbo Force – a supercharged boost of clean energy without the comedown.
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Please sign up for the free newsletter here. Without your support, my voice will be silenced. And the Trump administration is doing nothing to stop it. In the same video, he also criticized Vox’s Carlos Maza, highlighting an article which asserted that Maza was an activist, not a journalist. In a prescient prediction of his imminent ban, BPS released a video yesterday in which he warned that independent voices were being “silenced – relentlessly, pathologically and ruthlessly” by Silicon Valley. His videos were always carefully worded in order to comply with YouTube’s ever tightening rules, but his entire channel was deleted anyway. However, the biggest example of censorship occurred today, with Black Pigeon Speaks, a channel that boasted nearly half a million subscribers, being banned by YouTube, with the company providing no reason whatsoever.īlack Pigeon Speaks, a vegan who rescues pigeons, is a moderate centrist who produced polished videos that called out the far-left and social justice warriors. This led to Crowder’s channel being demonetized and the #VoxAdPocalypse – which saw thousands of channels deleted or demonetized for ‘hate speech’. YouTube banned the channel of a creator with half a million subscribers the day after he released a video decrying censorship and criticizing Vox’s Carlos Maza.Įarlier this month, Maza whipped up a firestorm of outrage after accusing Steven Crowder of using gay slurs against him.