NEW: YouTube blocks global access to Russian state-funded media channels
YouTube on Friday announced that it is blocking access worldwide to channels associated with Russian state-funded media.
This change is effective immediately, and we expect our systems to take time to ramp up," YouTube"Our Community Guidelines prohibit content denying, minimizing or trivializing well-documented violent events. We are now removing content about Russia’s invasion in Ukraine that violates this policy," YouTube said.. On Friday, it extended that policy to include "all of the ways to monetize on our platform in Russia.
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