In late July 2025, amid high media interest in Derek Huffman, a Texas man who moved his family to Russia to escape LGBTQ+ ...

Russian officials have spent years laying the groundwork for a “managed” Internet that authorities could control and surveil.

The Russian authorities may open a treason investigation against popular interviewer Yury Dud, the state news agency TASS ...

YouTube removed nearly 11,000 channels and accounts linked to state propaganda campaigns from China, Russia and other ...

Google removed YouTube channels and other accounts linked to RT, the Russian state-controlled media outlet accused of paying ...

YouTube has taken down around 34,000 channels in 2025 that have been linked to foreign propaganda campaigns, with China and ...

The wife of Derek Huffman, who earlier this year relocated his family from Texas to Russia to escape “LGBT indoctrination”—and was sent last month into active duty fighting in Ukraine—has released an ...

YouTube just wiped out over 11,000 channels. Google says they were part of coordinated propaganda campaigns. Most were linked ...

But YouTube, the most popular social media platform in Russia—used by more than 75% of the country’s internet users according to eMarketer—remains accessible, even though it is an even more ...

As Moscow has suppressed independent, Russian-language media, YouTube has remained a bastion of online freedom of expression, giving opposition figures a platform to air their views. Now, YouTube ...

YouTube remains the only major US-based social media platform available in Russia. It's become "indispensable" to everyday people, making a ban tricky. Journalists and dissidents are taking advantage.

The following is a guest post by Robert Orttung, Elizabeth Nelson, and Anthony Livshen of George Washington University. When Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim founded YouTube in an office ...