YouTube Allows Canadian Gov’t to Ban Accounts Flagged as Misinformation by Mark Carney’s Task Force

YouTube has bowed to pressure from the Canadian government, banning the popular channel “Real Talk Politiks” after Mark Carney’s task force, in collaboration with the state-funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, flagged it as a misinformation-spreading “content farm.” The channel’s sudden disappearance followed a CBC hit-piece on Friday, raising alarms about government overreach in silencing dissenting voices.

“Real Talk Politiks” had amassed over 300,000 subscribers and 70 million views in April alone, per ViewStats.com, making it Canada’s third-most viewed news and politics channel in the past three months. Its dominance during the recent election cycle drew scrutiny from the CBC, which labeled it a threat in a report that prompted YouTube to swiftly terminate the channel, sparking debates over censorship and the role of government-backed entities like Carney’s task force in policing online content.

Modernity.news reports: In a Sunday thread on X, Real Talk Politiks explained:

CBC, Canada’s state-funded media just got YouTube to terminate my channel — not for breaking rules, but for having the wrong political views.

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CBC couldn’t compete with the content… so they tried to erase it. This is censorship in Canada.

I didn’t break any rules. No strikes. No deception. Just political commentary. And yet — YouTube terminated the entire channel shortly after CBC reached out with hit-piece questions.

Here’s what’s wild: I was pulling more views than CBC, which really bothered them. They clearly don’t understand how YouTube works with most of the audience outside Canada. But CBC — desperate for relevance — couldn’t stand that.

So what did they do? They contacted YouTube. And not long after… the channel vanished. No real explanation. No public process. Just gone. Like it never existed.

CBC and YouTube clearly don’t understand how the internet works. They think they can silence people with opposing views. But all they’ve done is expose their own fear — and their willingness to crush speech they don’t like.

When state media and Big Tech team up to silence a creator because of political ideology, it’s not just censorship — it’s tyranny with a smile.

Apparently CBC pointed to an AI video of Ronald Reagan that was not properly labeled as such, prompting YouTube to justify the takedown for violations of its policies on “spam, deceptive practices and scams,” which – they could have simply issued a warning for and allowed Real Talk Politiks to correct instead of completely disappearing the account.

The CBC cited University of Ottawa associate professor Elizabeth Dubois…

…who said “These types of accounts are presenting themselves as the way to get informed and they are embedding partisan perspectives typically within that information delivery,” adding “So it’s really causing this shift in what information people are receiving, and it’s also going to force us to really reconsider what we think of as media literacy.”

Heaven forbid people consume whatever media they want and form their own opinions.

The CBC is openly bragging about it – uploading a video to YouTube (comments off, of course), titled “How we shut down one of Canada’s biggest news ‘content farms’”