The move comes after Facebook and Twitter took similar action earlier this week.
Social media platforms have been combating state-backed influence campaigns since after the 2016 U.S. presidential election.: Days after Facebook and Twitter took action against a Chinese-backed campaign to discredit pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, YouTube followed suit,on Thursday that it disabled 210 accounts behaving in a “coordinated manner” while uploading videos about Hong Kong.
Google, which owns YouTube, didn’t say outright that China was behind the coordinated influence operation, only that the takedowns were “consistent with recent observations and actions related to China announced by Facebook and Twitter.”Google did not describe what the videos in question said about Hong Kong, how many views those videos received, or whether the offending accounts simply uploaded videos or purchased ads on the site too.
Google came under pressure this week to remove ads purchased by a state-run media channel that implied the protests are the result of foreign influence, the
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