Google says it shut down hundreds of YouTube channels tied to misinformation around the Hong Kong protests.
suspend nearly 1,000 accounts that were linked to a state-backed disinformation campaign originating from inside China. It also comes after Google and its video platform face scrutiny from lawmakers regarding its ability to control misinformation that goes viral on its site, particularly as the 2020 presidential elections near.
"Earlier this week, as part of our ongoing efforts to combat coordinated influence operations, we disabled 210 channels on YouTube when we discovered channels in this network behaved in a coordinated manner while uploading videos related to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong," Shane Huntley, director of software engineering for Google Security's Threat Analysis Group said in a"We found use of VPNs and other methods to disguise the origin of these accounts and other activity...
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