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There's a major amount of censorship on YT these days, many videos that are deemed "non advertiser friendly" (read: they are politically incorrect and don't resonate with our political echo chamber) are demonetized.
The evidence? For example "The Rubin Report" - the guy does interviews with interesting people, very professional production, own studio, very civil.
But for example an interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been "demonetized" - obviously being an apostate to Islam, a survivor of female genital mutilation with fatwa calling for her death. An author and a public figure that has been, still ten years ago, celebrated as a role model and a symbol of standing up to oppressive and totalitarian ideology, is a reason enough to "demonetize it" .
Some accounts and videos are also straight up taken down or put into "limited state" so they can't be embedded, commented on, or up voted (and no not just lunatic conspiration theories etc.)
There were also multiple instances of manipulating the up and down vote ratio, or the number of views. So the content that is deemed "politically incorrect" doesn't make it to "trending", or won't appear popular otherwise.
This has been the most flagrant in one of their debut "creators for change" videos that was "celebrating refugees" and went viral since it was very corny and could be classified as an somewhat obvious propaganda. It received a huge dislike vs. like ratio (about 4:1) and plenty of sarcastic comments.
At some point the dislikes stopped to count, and magically - the recent follow up videos from "creators for change" already get an overwhelmingly positive like vs. dislike ratio.
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