YouTube deletes 2 channels of RT DE with 600K subscribers over ‘community guidelines’ violation
by aletho
RT | September 28, 2021
YouTube has permanently deleted two of RT's German-language channels, the news outlet has announced. RT DE was listed among top News & Politics channels on the social media platform, with hundreds of millions of views.
The Google-owned video service “has deleted the RT DE channel, as well as our second channel DFP [Der Fehlende Part, “the missing piece”], without the right to restoration,” Dinara Toktosunova, head of RT in Germany, announced on her Telegram channel on Tuesday.
The main RT DE channel was barred from live-streaming and uploading videos for seven days since September 21, on the basis of a strike over “community guidelines” violations, for alleged “medical misinformation” in four videos. YouTube did not elaborate on what specifically was questionable in the clips. The videos, some weeks while others months old, focused on the Covid-19 crisis. They featured, among others, an interview with German epidemiologist Friedrich Puerner, who was critical of the governmental ways of battling the pandemic.
The strike was due to expire on Tuesday, but YouTube removed the channel. The social media platform said in a statement: "We have reviewed your content and found severe or repeated violations of our Community Guidelines. Because of this, we have removed your channel from Youtube."
The same thing happened with DFP, which had no strikes and posted RT DE content. A YouTube representative later confirmed that publishing material on the DFP was, according to the tech giant, a violation of the strike handed to RT DE’s main channel. As a result, both channels were deleted.
RT DE was among the top five German-language channels in YouTube’s News and Politics category, based on Tubular Labs data for August, with over 600,000 subscribers and almost 547 million total views.
In recent months, RT DE has faced mounting pressure in Germany, including over its plans to launch a TV broadcast later this year. In mid-August, Luxembourg denied RT’s application for a German-language broadcast license. Chancellor Angela Merkel denied pressuring the neighbouring country to do so, despite multiple German outlets reporting that representatives from Berlin met with Luxembourg officials to discuss the issue.
Ahead of the planned TV launch, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said some German media outlets had waged “an outright information war” against RT. The same month, Die Welt – owned by the Axel Springer conglomerate – published two opinion pieces that German courts later found contained false claims about RT DE.
Earlier this year, Commerzbank abruptly and without explanation announced that it was shutting down accounts associated with RT DE. When the outlet reached out to other German banks, its inquiries about doing business were ignored or rejected.
aletho | September 28, 2021 at 3:44 pm | Tags: Covid-19, Germany | Categories: Full Spectrum Dominance, Russophobia | URL: https://wp.me/pIUmC-106O
يحذف YouTube قناتين من RT DE مع 600 ألف مشترك بسبب انتهاك "إرشادات المجتمع"
بواسطة aletho
RT | 28 سبتمبر 2021
أعلن موقع YouTube عن حذف اثنتين من قنوات RT باللغة الألمانية نهائيًا. تم إدراج قناة RT DE ضمن أفضل قنوات الأخبار والسياسة على منصة وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي ، مع مئات الملايين من المشاهدات.
أعلنت خدمة الفيديو المملوكة لشركة Google "حذف قناة RT DE ، بالإضافة إلى قناتنا الثانية DFP [Der Fehlende Part ،" الجزء المفقود "] ، دون الحق في الاستعادة" ، كما أعلنت Dinara Toktosunova ، رئيسة RT في ألمانيا ، على قناتها Telegram يوم الثلاثاء.
مُنعت قناة RT DE الرئيسية من البث المباشر وتحميل مقاطع الفيديو لمدة سبعة أيام منذ 21 سبتمبر / أيلول ، على أساس إضراب بسبب انتهاكات "إرشادات المجتمع" ، بسبب "معلومات طبية مضللة" مزعومة في أربعة مقاطع فيديو. لم يوضح موقع يوتيوب ما هو مشكوك فيه على وجه التحديد في المقاطع. ركزت مقاطع الفيديو ، التي يبلغ عمرها بضعة أسابيع بينما كان عمر البعض الآخر أشهر ، على أزمة Covid-19. عرضوا ، من بين أمور أخرى ، مقابلة مع عالم الأوبئة الألماني فريدريش بويرنر ، الذي انتقد الطرق الحكومية لمكافحة الوباء.
كان من المقرر أن تنتهي المخالفة يوم الثلاثاء ، لكن يوتيوب أزال القناة. وقالت منصة التواصل الاجتماعي في بيان: "لقد راجعنا المحتوى الخاص بك ووجدنا انتهاكات خطيرة أو متكررة لإرشادات المجتمع. ولهذا السبب ، أزلنا قناتك من Youtube."
حدث نفس الشيء مع DFP ، الذي لم يكن لديه أي مخالفات ونشر محتوى RT DE. أكد ممثل YouTube لاحقًا أن نشر المواد على DFP ، وفقًا لعملاق التكنولوجيا ، يعد انتهاكًا للإضراب الذي تم تسليمه لقناة RT DE الرئيسية. نتيجة لذلك ، تم حذف كلتا القناتين.
كانت قناة RT DE من بين أفضل خمس قنوات باللغة الألمانية في فئة الأخبار والسياسة على YouTube ، استنادًا إلى بيانات Tubular Labs لشهر أغسطس ، مع أكثر من 600000 مشترك وحوالي 547 مليون مشاهدة.
في الأشهر الأخيرة ، واجهت RT DE ضغوطًا متزايدة في ألمانيا ، بما في ذلك خططها لإطلاق بث تلفزيوني في وقت لاحق من هذا العام. في منتصف أغسطس ، رفضت لوكسمبورغ طلب قناة RT للحصول على رخصة بث باللغة الألمانية. نفت المستشارة أنجيلا ميركل الضغط على الدولة المجاورة للقيام بذلك ، على الرغم من أن العديد من المنافذ الألمانية ذكرت أن ممثلين من برلين التقوا بمسؤولي لوكسمبورغ لمناقشة القضية.
قبل الإطلاق المخطط له للتلفزيون ، قالت المتحدثة باسم وزارة الخارجية الروسية ماريا زاخاروفا إن بعض وسائل الإعلام الألمانية شنت "حربًا إعلامية صريحة" ضد قناة RT. في الشهر نفسه ، نشرت Die Welt - المملوكة لمجموعة Axel Springer - مقالتين للرأي وجدت المحاكم الألمانية لاحقًا أنها تحتوي على ادعاءات كاذبة حول RT DE.
في وقت سابق من هذا العام ، أعلن Commerzbank فجأة ودون تفسير أنه سيغلق الحسابات المرتبطة بـ RT DE. عندما تواصل المنفذ مع البنوك الألمانية الأخرى ، تم تجاهل أو رفض استفساراته حول ممارسة الأعمال التجارية.
aletho | 28 سبتمبر 2021 الساعة 3:44 مساءً | العلامات: Covid-19 ، ألمانيا | الفئات: هيمنة الطيف الكامل ، رهاب روسيا | URL: https://wp.me/pIUmC-106O
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