RT's YouTube Page Experiences Temporary Blackout

The primary YouTube channel for Russian English-language news channel RT experienced a temporary outage on Monday night into Tuesday morning.

RT claimed its account was down for about eight hours due to a glitch that YouTube acknowledged. YouTube did not immediately return a request for comment. Its page has more than 1.2 million subscribers.

The channel reported that the outage caused all of its content to be unavailable. Users who visited the YouTube page were presented with a note that read: "This channel has been suspended due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube’s policy against spam, scans, and commercially deceptive content.” Read more...