Google has blocked 6000 channels on YouTube that were dedicated to Chinese propaganda. Photo: File
San Francisco: Google announced in the first quarter of the year that it had deleted 6,000 channels from YouTube that originated from China.
These channels belonged to Dragon Bridge, a Chinese strategic group whose mission was to expand Chinese influence around the world. These channels and blogs contained mostly Chinese-language content on music, entertainment, and lifestyle, with subliminal videos and blogs on US-China relations and foreign affairs posted in English and Chinese.
According to Google, this is not an individual effort and is a systematic group action. It was also identified as spam by Google’s system many times. Google also said that it has deleted a total of 100,000 Dragon Bridge accounts, including blogs and YouTube channels. Many of them were also making money through Adsense.
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