YouTube got roasted by US senators for being the 'vehicle of choice' for Russian state-sponsored propaganda

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• The US Senate Intelligence Committee published a report on Russian election interference on Tuesday.
• The report accused Google's YouTube of being the "propaganda vehicle of choice" for RT, Russia's state-sponsored news organisation.
• But lawmakers also wrote that YouTube was less popular than Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter as the platform of choice for large-scale Russian propaganda operations.
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A panel of US lawmakers published a report on Tuesday accusing YouTube of being the "propaganda vehicle of choice" for Russian state-sponsored propaganda outfit RT.

The report by the Senate Intelligence Committee focused on internet misinformation campaigns waged by the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a notorious Russian troll operation that functioned mainly under the guise of fake accounts.

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