The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy (MCIP) will hold negotiations with YouTube on the problem of changes in its algorithms that resulted in a decrease in views of reports about the war published on the video hosting service by Ukrainian media.
"There will be a second round of negotiations with YouTube in the coming days. The thing is, they have changed their algorithms at some point, so that reports from Ukrainian mass media — videos related to war — get fewer views because they are marked 18+," said Oleksandr Tkachenko, the Minister of Culture and Information Policy.
Tkachenko noted that the ministry would try to persuade the platform that a country in war cannot avoid speaking about war.
On April 21, YouTube responded to the MCIP and deleted videos about the Wagner PMC that had over a million views, as well as the channels that shared them.
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