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.

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

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

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

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

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

The tech giant has removed over 30,000 accounts in 2025 so far, as part of a growing effort to curb state-sponsored ...

Derek Huffman said on his family's YouTube channel he enlisted with the Russian Armed Forces weeks after moving to Russia.

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 ...

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 ...