{"id":1750075,"date":"2022-11-24T06:02:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T11:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1750075"},"modified":"2022-11-24T06:02:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T11:02:42","slug":"youtube-censored-user-after-he-published-democrats-2016-stolen-election-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youtube-censored-user-after-he-published-democrats-2016-stolen-election-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Censored User After He Published Democrats\u2019 2016\u00a0\u2018Stolen Election\u2019 Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyoutube-censored-user-after-he-published-democrats-2016-stolen-election-claims%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1750075&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Independent YouTuber Matt Orfalea does not align with Democrats or Republicans. He eschews any type of label because labels are dangerous, he tells The Federalist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people identify with their politics. I just identify as a video creator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this is why Orfalea\u2019s videos are so effective. Amassing hundreds of thousands of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LQmbttoxUeE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">views<\/a>, and in some cases, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Slm5bvO-_5I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">millions<\/a>, the filmmaker\u2019s work consists of crisply edited mash-ups of politicians and corporate media figures making complete fools of themselves \u2014 without any commentary from Orfalea himself. One such <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zl-X-Lgrlf0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mashup<\/a> shows politicians and media decrying the Wuhan lab leak theory as a baseless conspiracy, despite all evidence pointing to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/29\/new-report-supports-claim-covid-19-came-from-wuhan-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">contrary<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8qQazyJ99OE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Another<\/a> shows the media\u2019s hypocrisy surrounding the Hunter Biden laptop (and their quest to characterize the story as Russian disinformation \u2014 an actually baseless claim).<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>While Orfalea\u2019s videos do not explicitly criticize the politicians or talking heads they represent, this has not stopped YouTube from demonetizing certain videos it deems hostile to the establishment-backed narrative of the day.<\/p>\n<p>In the comment section of the Wuhan lab leak video, Orfalea tells viewers, \u201cThis video is of course demonetized without explanation. Follow me on Rumble!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>But Orfalea is no stranger to censorship. During the 2016 election, he created a video that revealed PBS News\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/end-the-two-party-system\/pbs-censors-jill-stein-on-the-newshour-7c5735060873\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">selective editing<\/a> of an interview with then-Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein. Of particular note was PBS\u2019s censoring of Stein\u2019s entire criticism of Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton and Clinton\u2019s support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Within 24 hours of publishing his video on Facebook, Orfalea said, it was <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/end-the-two-party-system\/now-i-have-been-censored-by-facebook-ac1ffe094476\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deleted with no explanation<\/a>. The YouTuber also said last year that he has been <a href=\"https:\/\/censorednews.substack.com\/p\/youtube-deletes-reports-exposing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">censored<\/a> for publishing the <a href=\"https:\/\/0rf.medium.com\/youtube-censors-educational-video-for-using-same-graphic-images-as-cnn-msnbc-8696cb4cac3b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">same content as corporate media outlets<\/a> as well as drawing attention to the comments of a <a href=\"https:\/\/censorednews.substack.com\/p\/netflix-walkout-leaders-racism-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">disgruntled Netflix employee<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>But in the wake of the 2022 midterms and YouTube\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/14\/heres-how-big-tech-plans-to-rig-the-2022-midterms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent crackdown<\/a> on election-related \u201cmisinformation,\u201d Orfalea has once again found himself in the popular video platform\u2019s crosshairs.<\/p>\n<p>In September, Orfalea published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uoMfIkz7v6s&#038;feature=emb_imp_woyt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">montage<\/a> of Democrat politicians and media figures questioning the results of the 2016 election and characterizing it as \u201cillegitimate,\u201d \u201crigged,\u201d and \u201chacked.\u201d <\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>He then released a second montage comparing the statements of then-President Trump questioning the 2020 election results to Democrats \u2014 most notably, Hillary Clinton \u2014 questioning the results of the 2016 contest. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to show that Trump and the Republicans are not the only ones to challenge or question the integrity of an election,\u201d Orfalea said. \u201cIt was literally just the last election cycle. And people have already forgotten.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>YouTube immediately <a href=\"https:\/\/taibbi.substack.com\/p\/election-denial-for-me-but-not-for?r=5mz1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tried demonetizing both videos<\/a>, as journalist Matt Taibbi reported, but then reversed the demonetization of the first video after Orfalea pushed back. But that didn\u2019t stop the video-sharing platform from deleting the second video and giving Orfalea a strike (if a YouTuber receives three strikes, his entire channel will be deleted), imperiling his livelihood. Orfalea is currently <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/0rf\/status\/1593409966425051137?s=20&#038;t=hbqahly7bvOJRYSg_1gayw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">banned<\/a> from posting to YouTube for a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube deleted the video comparing Trump&#8217;s statements questioning the 2020 election results to Democrats questioning the 2016 contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1130,"featured_media":1750078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1750075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1750078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}