What Happened To My YouTube Channel?
N.B. Youtube, Facebook and Google are PRIVATE corporations, and they defend their best interest, so why do we, the so-called PUBLIC, not set up our own PUBLIC PLATFORMS instead of always complaining???
How covid-19 conspiracy theorists [another label following the very successful and lucrative weapon of mass deception called "HOLOCAUST DENIER"] are exploiting YouTube culture
Covid-19
conspiracy theorists are still getting millions of views on YouTube,
even as the platform cracks down on health misinformation. [The same
Lobby decides what is and what is not a conspiracy theory, and they will
destroy you and your entire family if you dare have a different view
than the one making them rich!]
When the notorious conspiracy theorist [the usual accusation to stiffle dissent!] Alex Jones was kicked off YouTube and Facebook in 2018, the lesson was supposed to be that deplatforming works. Without access to his millions of followers on mainstream social media, Jones became an online ghost [Keep on dreaming!], diminished and shouting his dangerous unfinished business to a much smaller audience [because they are the ones having dissenters kicked off social media!].
But some people online took a second lesson from the change: conspiracy theories, and the people who promote them, can get a lot of views—and money [But, the Lobby doesn't?].
Last week Patrick Bet-David, a popular financial YouTuber with more than 2.2 million subscribers, invited Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—one of the most high-profile proponents of the debunked theory that vaccines cause autism [debunked by who? Big Pharma and its prostitutes?] —for a two-hour interview on his channel. At the beginning, Bet-David asked, “Why’d you agree to do a long-form interview?”
The answer was obvious to Kennedy, one of many anti-vaccination leaders trying to make themselves as visible as possible [For the benefit of our children and loved ones!] during the covid-19 pandemic [There was never any pandemic, but a US ENGINEERED PLANDEMIC using a non lethal virus as scapegoat!]. “I’d love to talk to your audience,” he replied.
Kennedy told Bet-David that he believes his own social-media accounts have been unfairly censored [because he is a criminal?]; making an appearance on someone else’s popular platform is the next best thing. Bet-David framed the interview as an “exclusive,” enticingly titled “Robert Kennedy Jr. Destroys Big Pharma, Fauci & Pro-Vaccine Movement.” In two days, the video passed half a million views.
As of Wednesday, advertisements through YouTube’s ad service were playing before the videos, and Bet-David’s merchandise [peanuts!] was for sale in a panel below the video’s description. Two other interviews, in which anti-vaccine figures aired several debunked claims about coronavirus and vaccines (largely unchallenged by Bet-David), were also showing ads. Bet-David said in an interview that YouTube had limited ads on all three videos, meaning they can generate revenue, but not as much as they would if they were fully monetized.
We asked YouTube for comment on all three videos on Tuesday afternoon. By Thursday morning, one of the three (an interview with anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Judy Mikovits) had been deleted for violating YouTube's medical misinformation policies [Youtube holds a monopoly on medical information?]. Before it was deleted, the video had more than 1 million views.
YouTube said that the
other two videos were borderline, meaning that YouTube decided they
didn’t violate rules, but would no longer be recommended or show up
prominently in search results.[And, they call it FREEDOM OF SPEECH?]
After we asked YouTube for comment, one of the three videos had been deleted. Before it was deleted, the video had more than 1 million views.
According to YouTube’s own rules, videos containing “medical misinformation” about covid-19 are against advertiser guidelines [but not Government, Big Pharma and Bill Gates' medical misinformation?]— if not in violation of the platform's community standards governing what content is allowed on YouTube at all. Taken together, the three videos gathered more than 3 million views in less than a week [How horrible!].
YouTube has introduced some
attempts to counterbalance health misinformation in the past year—for
example, by surfacing authoritative sources in some search results,
adding information panels to some videos, and working to remove those
that violate its evolving list of policies about such false claims. [Google, Facebook, and Youtube have been censoring as much dissent as they can, making those 3 platforms barely RELIABLE!] But
the pandemic has heightened the urgency and raised the stakes: as
covid-19 took hold (LIAR!], YouTube introduced specific policies prohibiting
videos that question the transmission or existence of the disease,
promote unsubstantiated cures, or encourage people to ignore official
guidance. (As we have now officially set up a TOTALITARIAN FASCIST STATE, our old Master Plan we always blamed on Herr Adolf Hitler!]
Experts have said that social-media platforms’ moves to prioritize reliable information and demonetize, limit the reach of, or outright remove
content containing misinformation can help limit its spread. But
platforms have struggled with effective enforcement. Health
misinformation poses its own challenges, and existing conspiracy
theories and false claims are adapting and spreading in the current
pandemic faster than fact-checking—or sometimes science—can catch up. [And they accused the Soviets of censorship?]
On
Tuesday, spokesman Farshad Shadloo said in an email that YouTube works
to “quickly remove flagged content that violates [their] policies.” The
platform has “strict policies that govern what kind of videos we allow
ads to appear on,” he added, and these policies are “vigorously”
enforced. [Youtube is a private company, so they can enforce their own rules! Why not?]
But an interview with Bet-David and a review of other conspiracy-riddled activity
on YouTube shows that in fact, many prominent peddlers of conspiracy
theories are successfully using the system exactly as intended—applying
the same techniques that many YouTubers have used to become famous.
Conspiracy: The collab edition
On YouTube, there are real incentives for creators to seek out new audiences, collaborate, or capitalize on controversy, whether they review beauty products, play games, or comment on the news. Collabing with bigger, respected names—or jumping on subculture drama—is a pretty reliable method for any YouTuber to gain views and subscribers. (Before he was banned from YouTube, for example, Alex Jones repeatedly though unsuccessfully pursued an interview with PewDiePie, then the site’s leading creator in terms of subscriptions.) But the difference between weighing in on community drama and engaging with fringe personalities is the potential harm the message may cause.
The spread of hateful [?] misinformation targeting marginalized groups [Zionists, homosexuals, transgender...???] leads to harassment, threats, and violence. [But,
not media propaganda that leads to racist genocidal wars by the
powerful USA-ISRAEl and their acolytes that have already killed hundreds
of millions???] Health misinformation can lead people to ignore life-saving public health measures or inspire them to try dangerous “cures.” [And Big Pharma is not dangerous?] Anthony Fauci, who along with Bill Gates has become a leading villain for coronavirus conspiracy theorists, has increased his personal security after a swell of death threats. [Anthony Fauci the Zionist Jesuit working for Zionist Ian Lipkin a JOO and Zionist Bill Gates another JOO???]
Anti-vaccine activists are particularly good at gaining views on virtually any social app, says Renee DiResta [a Sayan?], a researcher [paid by who?] at the Stanford Internet Observatory who works to combat this type of misinformation. “They are on every single social platform—even TikTok,” she says. “If they can create content people will find if they search for a specific term, they'll invest the time.”
The relationship between fringe and mainstream YouTubers can be symbiotic [Oy Vey!] , according to Alice Marwick [a Sayana?], an assistant professor in communication at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
“Both members of the discussion are trying to benefit,” she says. “The fringe person from getting this mainstream, and the mainstream from getting a potentially increased audience.”
While YouTube bans creators who break the rules too many times in a row, some conspiracy theorists are using collabs and interviews as a workaround, getting other YouTubers to either host them or talk about them on their channels.
Bet-David’s recent videos are an example. His verified channel, Valuetainment, is part of “entrepreneur YouTube”—a personality-driven, self-optimizing scene full of suit-clad experts [a crime?] offering the keys to financial or creative success. Until recently, Valuetainment has not really been a haven for conspiracy theorists, although Bet-David did interview Jones once. His archives feature a ton of how-tos, motivational videos, business tips, and interviews with more mainstream conservative personalities and sports figures. He described himself to me as a “vaccine guy” who will continue to inoculate his children.
But attention has a way of shifting the incentives.
A
few weeks ago, Bet-David said, he started getting emails from fans
asking him to interview David Icke, a conspiracy theorist whose own
channel was recently removed from YouTube after he repeatedly violated the platform’s policies on covid-19 misinformation. [???]
Another entrepreneur-focused channel [Brian Rose of London Real?] that did a largely sympathetic interview [another crime?]with Icke in March had been rewarded with millions of views and a swell of subscribers. Bet-David told me his fans believed he could “challenge” Icke. The result was a lengthy, at times combative, discussion. It didn’t do particularly well, peaking at less than half a million views.
But the Icke interview led to a surge of suggestions for new guests. “What started happening to me was I started getting emails saying, ‘Have you looked up on this topic?’” he says. He did, and went down the rabbit hole.
Anti-vaccine activists, along with other supporters of
conspiracy theories, are strongly motivated to seek out bigger and
bigger audiences, says Marwick. YouTube and influencer culture has long
been vulnerable to their efforts, leading unwitting or unprepared
personalities with large followings to host proponents of increasingly
extreme views in the name of intellectual debate, curiosity, or
controversy. Even when interviewers frame the video as a debate, Marwick
says, “they’re just opening the Overton window to whatever fringe idea
is being promoted by the guest.” [You must passed laws to make these CRIMES?]
Bet-David’s resulting interviews with Kennedy and other major anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists were largely deferential, sometimes allowing them to speak uninterrupted and unchallenged for minutes at a time. [unlike with Corporate mainstream media prostitutes!] The video titles were indistinguishable from those being put out by conspiracy theorists.
“I am responsible for what comes out of my mouth. I’m not responsible for what comes out of your mouth.”
Patrick Bet-David, Valuetainment
The most popular of these additions to Bet-David’s YouTube channel, “Dr Buttar Accuses Fauci, Gates & The Media For Using COVID-19 To Drive Hidden Agenda,” is a two-hour interview with Rashid Buttar, an anti-vaccine activist with his own small channel who has, among other things, claimed that the coronavirus is a bioweapon. [And it is!!! OY VEY!!!] In the video, Buttar asserts to Bet-David that the death count for covid-19 is being artificially inflated, [And it is!!!] that doctors and nurses speaking to the media are “paid actors,” [And they are!!!] that dead bodies seen on TV and in the news are “mannequins,” [And they were!!!] and that covid-19 is no different from the “regular flu.” [And it is!!!] He also urges viewers to “go out and demonstrate” [Is it against the Law to demonstrate against TYRANNY???] that the pandemic is a hoax [And it is the biggest hoax in History!!!]. These statements appear to be against YouTube’s rules, but the benefit for Buttar is clear: according to SocialBlade, a third-party analytics site for influencers, he had 4,200 subscribers on March 28. He just passed 250,000.
A
similar, now-deleted interview by Bet-David with Judy Mikovits, a
former chronic fatigue syndrome researcher [Holy Shit?] who has become a major
anti-vaccine personality, was titled “Former AIDS Scientist Exposes Dr.
Fauci’s Medical Corruption." She’s made several claims about the spread
of the coronavirus violate YouTube’s rules. On Bet-David’s channel, she
repeated her claim that a flu vaccine from the mid-2010s is actually
“driving the pandemic,” that wearing a mask will “activate” the virus in
the body, and that Anthony Fauci should be charged with “treason.” [Those found guilty of treason, usually got shot!]
Bet-David says he deferred to Mikovits, Kennedy, and Buttar in part because they are doctors or lawyers. “That guy went and became a doctor. You gotta give credit to a person who became a doctor,” he says of Buttar. In his mind, Bet-David was on a learning journey, unqualified to evaluate the hours of information his guests were sending his way.
In fact, many claims by conspiracy theorists are already discredited, DiResta notes [LIAR!]. Anti-vaccine videos are “a mix of jargony pseudoscience woo that's often already been debunked and huge big numbers designed to scare people, taken entirely out of context,” she says. [A known JOOWISH tactic to fight back their adversary using their own worrds!] “Audiences who aren't immersed in the facts, and are unfamiliar with anti-vaccine rhetorical games, think they're hearing something scandalous. And then they go on to tell their friends about it, or occasionally begin to follow the anti-vax influencer. “
I asked Bet-David whether he
felt any responsibility over airing these views on his
channel—particularly potentially harmful claims by his guests, urging
viewers to ignore public health recommendations. [That dummy means CORPORATE BIG PHARMA RECOMMENDATIONS!!! It they were public, the PUBLIC should have a say in the matter!!!]
“I do not,” he said. “I am responsible for what comes out of my mouth. I’m not responsible for what comes out of your mouth”
For him, that lack of responsibility extends to misinformation that could be harmful to his audience. He is just giving people what they are asking for. That, in turn, drives attention, which allows him to make money from ads, merchandise, speaking gigs, and workshops. [LIAR!] “It’s up to the audience to make the decision for themselves,” he says. Besides, he thinks he’s done interviewing anti-vaccine activists for now. He’s trying to book some “big name” interviews of what he termed “pro-vaccine” experts.
But the anti-vaccine activists might not need access to Bet-David's channel any longer, anyway. Earlier this week, Mikovits claimed that she "got word" President Trump watched an interview she did with another YouTube channel. That video, which is still on available to watch, has more than 600,000 views.
This article was updated [edited!] after YouTube clarified its position on two of the videos we flagged
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