Affiliated media: The Insider Live, The Insider Youtube Channel

Incident date: January 23, 2024

Attack type:

• Trolling

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: The Insider

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

YouTube has blocked and deleted The Insider's channel and all its content. The platform, run by Google, commented that the channel 'violates our anti-spam and anti-fraud policies'. For several months, The Insider Live has been subject to mass attacks by trolls “who left comments in support of Hamas, Azerbaijan and the Kremlin's foreign policy and sent complaints about the channel.”