RT: Google caved to 'unprecedented political pressure' to remove site from YouTube package

Google caved to “unprecedented political pressure” by removing a Russian government-backed outlet from a premium package of Youtube channels, an editor at the channel protested.

Google reportedly removed RT, a Kremlin-run outlet formerly known as Russia Today, from a package of YouTube channels bundled together for advertising sales. The channel remains on Youtube, but an RT official said they were not notified of the advertising change directly. The decision follows a U.S. intelligence assessment that RT was part of a Russian disinformation campaign designed to interfere with the 2016 presidential election.