YouTube has been cloned by Russians: propaganda galore, with no viewers.

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The Kremlin propaganda is delivered straight to your smartphones, laptops, and tablets through a new Russian video service called “Platforma”. The issue is that essentially no viewers are attracted to this YouTube clone.

Unlike most Western tech and social media stages, the Google-claimed YouTube isn’t yet prohibited in Russia, increasingly authoritarian country, and really boasts over 93 million clients. In any case, a ban is likely approaching, according to most authorities.

The authorities are preparing. Meduza, an independent Russian news site, detailed in late 2023 that VK, an online social media service,, was fostering a “YouTube killer” on the off chance that the tremendously more famous platform was restricted in the country.

It’s currently faking video views and is brimming with pornography and pirated content and isn’t precisely creating some issues for YouTube which has switched off  monetization in Russia after it attacked Ukraine in 2022 in any case.

But Platform, created by Rteam which has a place with the parent organization of RT, a state propaganda channel, is in a real sense a YouTube clone (see with yourselves own eyes). That was finished intentionally, so clients wouldn’t need to make progress with their habits, the service’s developers told Meduza.

There is search, a fundamental menu with playlists, viewing history, separate categories of videos, the “like” and “dislike” icons, a comment feed. Clients can likewise post and watch Shorts or broadcast live recordings.

“Everyone believes that YouTube has freedom of speech, but this freedom of speech is not for everyone,” claims the presentation video of Platforma. The voiceover is unhappy YouTube blocks Russian state media channels and “patriotic” bloggers.

Prohibitive Russian laws are followed – Platforma disallows posting recordings that contain nudity, LGBT content, or guns (even though pro-Russian content from the war in Ukraine is seemingly allowed).

Vladimir Putin, the leader of Russia, is commended in a several videos however as a general rule, there’s simply not a lot of content. For example, controversial blogger Artemy Lebedev is one of the most famous personas on the site yet his account just has around 450 subscribers.

Meduza points out, “The main page of the service currently features videos that have collected several dozen views, and slightly less frequently, those with more than a hundred views. Some videos are not watched by anyone.”

“On the Trends tab, you can find three videos with views from a thousand to one and a half thousand. Two of them are about video games, and another is about Russian missiles.”

Obviously, its initial days however finding Platform on the web is as of now difficult, Meduza says. Up until this point, the primary search engines just give news about the new platform – not a direct link to its official website.

Moscow needs to provide alternatives to the country’s internet users because Roskomnadzor, Russia’s federal media and telecommunications agency has been blocking undesirable websites left and right over the past few years.

A series of different regulations require social media platforms to eliminate “illegal” content and force fines on or boycott sites, including worldwide ones that fail to block such content. Facebook, Instagram, and X were totally restricted in Russia after it attacked Ukraine.

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