Google said Thursday it had taken down more than 200 channels posting on protests in Hong Kong on its video-streaming site YouTube, the latest technology firm to strike back against Chinese-backed efforts to influence clashes over the future of the region’s fragile democracy.
Google removed the channels after discovering they “behaved in a coordinated manner while uploading videos related to the months-long unrest in Hong Kong,” the company said in a blog post. The online search giant linked the accounts to recent Chinese-backed operations removed by Facebook and Twitter.
