Russian Groups Made 43 Hrs Of YouTube Video During U.S. Elections
Google has recently revealed reports about Kremlin-linked groups spending around $4,700 on advertising platforms, during the 2016 U.S. elections. These ads were although not targeted to any specific group of users or no evidence of targeting by geography were found.
It was also revealed by Google, that its YouTube, which strictly prohibit things like hate speech, violent or graphic content; found 18 channels closely associated with this campaign that made videos, which were in English-language, public, with the political content in them.
There were 1,108 such videos uploaded, representing- 43 hours of content and totaling 309,000 U.S. views from June 2015 to November 2016.
The report also said that these “videos were not targeted to the U.S.” and th...