{"id":64231,"date":"2022-11-25T20:56:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T01:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64231"},"modified":"2022-11-25T20:56:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T01:56:44","slug":"youtube-censors-reality-boosts-disinformation-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64231","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Censors Reality, Boosts Disinformation: Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-header\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title unpublished\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taibbi.substack.com\/p\/youtube-censors-reality-boosts-disinformation?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\">YouTube Censors Reality, Boosts Disinformation: Part 1<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"subtitle\"><strong>YouTube censored this site for accuracy, yet new news today underscores that they continue to hype fake news.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"available-content\">\n<div class=\"body markup\" dir=\"auto\">\n<div id=\"youtube2-8qQazyJ99OE\" class=\"youtube-wrap\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;8qQazyJ99OE&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}\">\n<div class=\"youtube-inner\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/8qQazyJ99OE?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0\" width=\"728\" height=\"409\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As subscribers by now are aware, I\u2019m very upset about YouTube\u2019s recent decision to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/taibbi.substack.com\/p\/election-denial-for-me-but-not-for\" rel=\"\">censor a factually accurate video<\/a>\u00a0about \u201crigged election\u201d comments produced for this site by Matt Orfalea. The company has given Matt a strike and labeled his\/our work \u201cmisinformation,\u201d an insult I\u2019ve decided not to take lying down. I\u2019m going to search for new ways to embarrass the company until they reverse their decision. As it happens, today offers an excellent opportunity.<\/p>\n<p><em>CBS This Morning\u00a0<\/em>today came out with a story claiming they obtained a copy of Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop, sent for an \u201cindependent forensic review,\u201d and determined it \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/copy-of-hunter-biden-laptop-data-appears-genuine-independent-experts-find\/#x\" rel=\"\">appears genuine<\/a>.\u201d This follows up confirmation\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/16\/us\/politics\/hunter-biden-tax-bill-investigation.html\" rel=\"\">from\u00a0<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/16\/us\/politics\/hunter-biden-tax-bill-investigation.html\" rel=\"\">The New York Times\u00a0<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/16\/us\/politics\/hunter-biden-tax-bill-investigation.html\" rel=\"\">back on March 16th<\/a>, and more importantly, the exhaustive earlier work of\u00a0<em>Politico\u00a0<\/em>reporter Ben Schreckinger confirming key emails in his book,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bidens-Familys-Tragedy-Scandal-Triumph\/dp\/1538738007\" rel=\"\">The Bidens<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Matt did an exceptional job back in March in the video above, compiling clips of people who went on air and with absolute certainty proclaimed the laptop \u201ca lie,\u201d \u201caltered or fake,\u201d \u201cpure distractions,\u201d and of course, \u201cRUSSIAN DISINFORMATION.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not you thought the actual content of the story was important, the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop affair was a crossroads moment in the history of modern censorship. YouTube played a major role in this event.<\/p>\n<p>This was a case in which major news media \u2014 including CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and countless other outlets \u2014 actively embraced disinformation, in the form of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=00000175-4393-d7aa-af77-579f9b330000\" rel=\"\">group letter<\/a> from 50-plus former intelligence officials saying the laptop story (they referred to a \u201claptop op\u201d) had the \u201cclassic earmarks of a Russian information operation.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube Censors Reality, Boosts Disinformation: Part 1 YouTube censored this site for accuracy, yet new news today underscores that they continue to hype fake news. As subscribers by now are aware, I\u2019m very upset about YouTube\u2019s recent decision to\u00a0censor a factually accurate video\u00a0about \u201crigged election\u201d comments produced for this site by Matt Orfalea. The company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120,3717,3733,3931],"class_list":["post-64231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-disinformation","tag-matt-taibbi","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64232,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64231\/revisions\/64232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}