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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Kari Paul

RT videos spreading Ukraine disinformation on YouTube despite ban – report

Although RT has been banned from the site, its videos are still streamed on YouTube, the massively popular video-sharing platform.
Although RT has been banned from the site, its videos are still streamed on YouTube, the massively popular video-sharing platform. Photograph: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images

Hundreds of videos produced by the Russia-controlled publication RT have found their way on to YouTube in the past year, despite the platform’s ban of such media last year.

YouTube, which is owned by Google, banned all Russian state-funded media from its platform globally in March 2022, citing a policy barring content that “denies, minimizes or trivializes well-documented violent events” as Russia sought to guide the narrative on its war in Ukraine.

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