YouTube Uses DOJ Allegations To Justify Axing Tenet Media’s Channel Without Due Process
Users who click on the link to Tenet Media’s YouTube channel are greeted with a blank screen and caption that reads, “This channel was removed because it violated our Community Guidelines.”
The widely used video platform YouTube removed Tenet Media and related channels from its services on Thursday after the Justice Department accused the company of partaking in a secret Russian influence operation.
The revelation comes days after the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the seizure of nearly three dozen internet domains it alleged were used in “Russian government-directed foreign malign influence campaigns colloquially referred to as ‘Doppelganger,’ in violation of U.S. money laundering and criminal trademark laws.” According to Fox News, the unsealed indictment alleged a pair of Russian state media staffers had been covertly funding a Tennessee-based, American content creation company identified in reports as Tenet Media” and other shell companies with the goal of spreading what the DOJ classified as “Russian government propaganda.”
As Susan Harris previously wrote in these pages, YouTube has faced accusations in recent years of censoring content “related to the Jan. 6 Committee and Covid vaccines, to climate change and public appearances by former President Donald Trump (presumably because he continues to question the results of the 2020 election.” /moar
September 06, 2024
https://thefederalist.com/2024/09/06/youtube-uses-doj-allegations-to-justify-axing-tenet-medias-channel-without-due-process/