In November 2006 Google bought YouTube, an American online video-sharing, for US$1.65 billion. YouTube was founded just over a year earlier in February 2005 by 3 former PayPal employees.
On August 14, 2019, Zach Vorhies, a Senior Software Engineer at YouTube came out as a Whistleblower to inform the public about Google’s extensive censorship system and political bias.
During the COVID-19 pandemic hundreds of thousands of videos were stripped from view, and many accounts were shut down under. This organised nudge-like, narrative-control, desired by government agencies, began to infiltrate social media platforms from 2008, according to Mike Benz.