By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine

Many believe those running giant social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are censoring information sharing based on ideological viewpoints, but after seeing the nature of those censored, blocked, "shadowbanned" as well as how Facebook is actively helping governments persecute those who oppose offical government stances, it begs the question of whether these social media giants are actually being paid as government agents to become a propaganda arm for them?

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While search engines bring up a variety of results on YouTube antics, some of the most egregious are the ones whre a proven government/YouTube connection has been documented as shown below which lead to the conclusion that YouTube is working in collusion with government entities.

In March of 2014 it was reported that YouTube, Google's video-sharing site, had given approximately 200 groups, including "government agencies, and organizations the power to flag up to 20 videos at a time."

Around 200 people and organizations have been given this flagging super power, according to The Wall Street Journal. Among this elite group is the British police unit, according to the Financial Times.

These special people and groups have the ability to flag up to 20 videos at once to be reviewed by YouTube staff. According to the Journal, 90 percent of the videos flagged by these people get pulled from the site or restricted to only adult users -- this is a far higher pull rate than videos flagged by the average YouTube user.

In June 2015, a bombshell was dropped about how YouTube colluded with the U.S. State Department, via an email from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton private account used to conduct official State Department business:

Amongst the emails released online, via the FOIA, was a document with the title “Google and YouTube.” Within the correspondence, a Clinton staffer forwarded the personal contact information of Google and YouTube’s CEOs on to the Secretary’s Office, according to Andrew Demeter, writing for Minds.

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