Tube Tricks

It's the new McCarthyism:

“Election Falshoods Take Off on YouTube as It Looks the Other Way,” reads the Halloween Day headline. And what follows is nothing short of a WokeQueda attack on YouTube to pressure the outlet into silencing and removing — not false content — but opinions and ideas the Times does not want heard or debated [I don’t link to fascism]:

In June 2023, YouTube decided to stop fighting the most persistent strain of election misinformation in the United States: the falsehood that President Biden stole the 2020 election from Donald J. Trump. Within months, the largest video platform became a home for election conspiracy theories, half-truths and lies. They in turn became a source of revenue for YouTube, which announced growing quarterly ad sales on Tuesday.

Guess who the Times decided to use as its source? You’re gonna think I’m making this up, but I’m not: Media Matters, a group the Times describes as one that tracks what “conservative sources” are saying and writing. Media Matters! The proven, far-left, taxpayer-subsidized, serial lying Brownshirts at Media Matters. What, was NewsGuard too busy drop-kicking kittens or something? The Times goes on to explain that Media Matters kept their eyes on “30 of the most popular YouTube channels they identified as persistently spreading election misinformation” ahead of the 2024 election. And the names include Rudy Giuliani, Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro, Benny Johnson, Tim Pool, etc. “The 30 conservative channels posted 286 videos containing election misinformation, which racked up more than 47 million views,” the Times breathlessly adds. “YouTube generated revenue from more than a third of those videos… Some commentators also made money from those videos[.]” YouTube, which is owned by the super villains at Google/Alphabet, is so far not budging.

Free speech survives on Youtubem for now...