Google Removes Nearly 11,000 YouTube Channels Linked to China, Russia, Other Nations

More than 7,700 channels deemed as propaganda were linked to China alone.

A young woman with a smartphone walks past a billboard advertisement for YouTube in Berlin, Germany, on Sept. 27, 2019. Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Google has removed nearly 11,000 YouTube channels tied to state-run propaganda campaigns for China, Russia, and other nations over the last few months.

The company announced in a July 21 press release that in the second quarter, they removed thousands of YouTube channels, Ad accounts, and a Blogger blog linked to the nations.