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2017 had a kind of similar situation where YouTube started deleting a whole lot of Syrian civil war related channels [0], apparently due to the algorithm going haywire trying to censor "extremist propaganda".

[0] https://www-nytimes-com.translate.goog/2017/08/22/world/midd...



I always assumed this was related to abuse of reporting systems by the opposition.




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