Articles By
Yevgeniy Golovchenko
Research Note
Information control on YouTube during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Yevgeniy Golovchenko, Kristina Aleksandrovna Pedersen, Jonas Skjold Raaschou-Pedersen and Anna Rogers
This research note investigates the aftermath of YouTube’s global ban on Russian state-affiliated media channels in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Using over 12 million YouTube comments across 40 Russian-language channels, we analyzed the effectiveness of the ban and the shifts in user activity before and after the platform’s intervention.