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In the same month that the network profusely defended NewsGuard, their website asserted that a [[YouTube]] algorithm change very clearly designed to stifle independent content creators and to censor the [[Alternative Influence Network]], as reported by [[Breitbart News]] at the time,<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/01/28/youtube-doubles-down-will-censor-recommended-videos-to-stop-misinformation/</ref> was simply intended to direct audiences away from "conspiracy theories" and "misinformation."<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/tech/youtube-tweaks-algorithms-to-stop-recommending-conspiracy-videos</ref> According to [[Bloomberg News|Bloomberg Businessweek]], by July 2020, Fox News' YouTube channel gained tens of millions of views while even the channels of massive leftist corporate networks [[CNN]] and [[MSNBC]] declined in views.<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-10/fox-news-youtube-channel-got-a-big-boost-from-algorithm-change</ref> In June 2020, [[Gavin McInnes]] and [[Stefan Molyneux]] were permanently banned from YouTube, which Fox News refrained from covering.
In the same month that the network profusely defended NewsGuard, their website asserted that a [[YouTube]] algorithm change very clearly designed to stifle independent content creators and to censor the [[Alternative Influence Network]], as reported by [[Breitbart News]] at the time,<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/01/28/youtube-doubles-down-will-censor-recommended-videos-to-stop-misinformation/</ref> was simply intended to direct audiences away from "conspiracy theories" and "misinformation."<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/tech/youtube-tweaks-algorithms-to-stop-recommending-conspiracy-videos</ref> According to [[Bloomberg News|Bloomberg Businessweek]], by July 2020, Fox News' YouTube channel gained tens of millions of views while even the channels of massive leftist corporate networks [[CNN]] and [[MSNBC]] declined in views.<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-10/fox-news-youtube-channel-got-a-big-boost-from-algorithm-change</ref> In June 2020, [[Gavin McInnes]] and [[Stefan Molyneux]] were permanently banned from YouTube, which Fox News refrained from covering.
===Poland===
In February 2021 [[Poland]] reacted to Big Tech's [[fascist]] tendencies and passed a law that would fine Big Tech platforms up $13.5 million for censoring [[conservative]], [[Christian]], and d traditional values posts. Justice Minister Sebastian Kaleta, the author of the law noted,
{{quotebox=float|"Poland spent 45 years under [[communism]], and Kaleta says that experience has taught it the value of free speech and that when the country sees these disturbing new trends toward censorship, the red light goes on."<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/world/poland-fights-big-tech-push-block-social-media-censorship</ref>}}
==Big Tech companies==
==Big Tech companies==