YouTube shuts German channels of Russian broadcaster RT

BERLIN (AP) — YouTube has terminated the German channels of Russian authorities broadcaster RT successful a determination centering connected alleged misinformation related to the coronavirus pandemic. YouTube said Wednesday that 2 channels were suspended. The institution said Wednesday that RT DE had received a “strike” for uploading worldly that violated YouTube’s standards connected COVID-19 misinformation, and arsenic a effect was suspended from uploading caller videos to its channel. YouTube says that “during this suspension, RT DE tried to circumvent this regularisation by utilizing different YouTube channel.” That resulted successful some channels being shut. Writing connected the messaging app Telegram, RT’s editor-in-chief called the determination “a existent media war” by Germany connected Russia.