YouTube is extending its ban on Russian government-funded media for violating its policies to apply worldwide. Thus, the ban applied in European countries will spread all over the world.
“Our Community Guidelines prohibit content that denies or trivializes documented violence. We remove content about the Russian invasion of Ukraine that violates this policy,” the company says.
To date, YouTube has removed more than 1,000 channels and more than 15,000 videos for violating a number of policies. It also paused all YouTube ads in Russia. Now it has expanded it to cover all the ways that Russian publications monetize.
The last move in the ongoing conflict between Russia and social media came from Russia, and the communication regulator imposed restrictions on Instagram. Just before that, Facebook announced that it had temporarily changed a rule banning users from calling for violence in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This paved the way for people in Ukraine, Poland and Russia to “call for violence against the Russian government and Russian soldiers in the context of the occupation of Ukraine”.
For Android, Google announced that it has activated a new warning system to warn Ukrainians of air strikes.
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