I took all of the known remaining propagandists + everything pro-Kremlin that showed up in youtube trending + searched for the most common pro-Kremlin speakers and topics (biolabs, "denazification", etc), then recursively looked through the recommended videos to those channels until any new channels stopped showing up. I ended up with 108 channels in total that had at least some views. So far I cannot find any more with any views, no matter how I search for them.
Pro-Kremlin is the info pushed by the Kremlin state channels, "propagandists" in this case are the people echoing that info, they are fairly easy to spot mostly because they use very different vocabulary (constant talk of "denazification", liberation, biolabls, pinzers, etc) and they tend to move from theme to theme in unison.
You just made them make more money then. Advertisers count impressions, not positive reviews; they don't care whether you like the video or not, all that counts is how many ads you watched, which in the case of a fake news video that makes you angry is higher than say a video you turn off after a while or ignore at all. The best weapon against those channels is to ignore them and report them when appropriate.
That's your baseless opinion! I've been watching Юрий Подоляка and there's no propaganda in his videos. In fact, he's a very good source of the military situation update on Ukraine. Well, you may not like his updates, but should he say lies to please you?! I don't sense any pro-Kremlin propaganda in his analyses!
I did not know who he was when I started the analysis, he simply came up in the graph right at the center of the remaining russian propaganda network on youtube.
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To add to this "I don't sense any pro-Kremlin propaganda in his analyses", here's him talking about the "special operation" with Soloviev (main russian propagandist): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL2qWYEQ4gQ
And what does this video proof? That he's truly honest! In many of his videos, he's critical of Russian army. Most recent case I recall is this one [0].
Let’s take for example the set of people who worked for the “Internet Research Agency” outlined in the Mueller Report. Employees in Russia were paid to create “American” profiles with fake information and to post to US sites with specific goals in mind. Specifically “sowing discord in the U.S. by inflaming passions on a range of divisive issues”. This was the definition of propaganda in my mind. It’s not often that you have the US intelligence apparatus to investigate and outline all the ways that something is propaganda. Sometimes you just have to go with gut feeling based on circumstantial evidence. In the case of Ukraine, the lengths Russia is willing to go are even more clear since since the start of the war, but have been there for those paying attention for years.
