The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has brought with it different Economic sanctions for the nation of Vladimir Putin; however, these have not been the only measures that have been taken against him, because now YouTube has also joined them.
This is due to the fact that this Saturday they announced that the video platform prohibited the Russian state media outlet RT and other Russian channels. receive money for the ads that are published with their videos, according to the Reuters news agency.
The measure will prevent them from monetizing their content; In addition, the affected channels will also appear less frequently in the recommendations, said YouTube spokesman Farshad Shadloo and some others like RT would no longer be accessible in Ukraine due to a request from the Ukrainian government.
This, because the Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, Mykhailo Fedorov, tweeted on Saturday that he had contacted YouTube “to block the channels Russian propagandists, such as Russia 24, TASS, RIA Novosti ”.
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The Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine Alexander Tkachenko prepared a letter to YouTube management with a request to ban Russian propagandists pic.twitter.com/dinL45k4uK
– World in conflict (@mundonconflicto) February 26, 2022
⚡️ @YouTube has disabled the monetization of Russia Today channels.
— Mykhailo Fedorov (@FedorovMykhailo) February 26, 2022
In addition, the European Union, announced on Wednesday, sanctions on people like Margarita Simonyan, whom he described as the editor-in-chief of RT and “a central figure” in Russian propaganda.
YouTube, for its part, indicated that it took this measure as part of extraordinary circumstances and that the measure would also include several russian channels affiliated with recent sanctions,” such as those of the European Union, according to Reuters.
With this, the platform joins others that have taken measures against Russia after they attacked Ukraine, such as the case of Meta, owner of Facebook, who banned state media russians post ads or generate revenue from advertising on your services anywhere in the world.
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Facebook will also not let the content of the Russians be monetized; in addition to prohibiting them from publishing ads or advertising on their platform, according to the newspaper El Clarín.
Twitter also temporarily stopped ads in Ukraine and Russia in order to get the really important information to Twitter users. red social.
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