Yes, more bullshit and lies from the New York Times. This time they're claiming YouTube, by broadcasting RT videos, worked for Russia to defeat Hillary.

YouTube — the world’s most-visited video site, owned by one of the most powerful and influential corporations in America — played a crucial role in helping build and expand RT, an organization that the American intelligence community has described as the Kremlin’s “principal international propaganda outlet” and a key player in Russia’s information warfare operations around the world. [...] As the presidential election heated up in the spring of 2016, RT consistently featured negative stories about Mrs. Clinton, according to United States intelligence officials. That included claims of corruption at her family foundation and ties to Islamic extremism, frequent coverage of emails stolen by Russian operatives from Mrs. Clinton’s campaign chairman, and accusations that she was in poor physical and mental health.

Of course, the article features no evidence for many of its claims. For example, it has never been shown that the DNC and Podesta emails "were stolen by Russian operatives." All the evidence that's been revealed actually strongly suggests it was a leak by a DNC insider and or the DNC itself.

But that doesn't stop the Times reporters from continuing to spread falsehoods in their never-ending effort to blame Russia for Hillary's defeat. Now it is YouTube's turn in the hot seat after Facebook and Google have already been raked over the coals by establishment politicians desperate to keep Russiagate alive.

“More than half of American adults say they watch YouTube, and younger viewers are moving to YouTube at staggering numbers,” said Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia and vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russia’s exploitation of social media platforms based in the United States. “YouTube is a target-rich environment for any disinformation campaign — Russian or otherwise — that represents a long-term, next-generation challenge.”

Anyone who believes Hillary lost because of YouTube videos of RT programming has dived so deep underground into the conspiracy sewer they've lost the ability to smell the shit that's being peddled as "proof" of Russia's sinister and "highly effective" ability to influence on our elections, if not our entire society. But that's the line of bull the corporate media and the Democrats continue to peddle even in the face of their own compromising links to Putin's regime.

Most Americans could not care less about Russiagate, as the polls have demonstrated. Indeed, Russiagate is all about the hype not any hard facts. In reality it's a great piece of fiction:

Since Election Day, the controversy over alleged Russian meddling and Trump campaign collusion has consumed Washington and the national media. Yet nearly one year later there is still no concrete evidence of its central allegations. There are claims by US intelligence officials that the Russian government hacked e-mails and used social media to help elect Donald Trump, but there has yet to be any corroboration. Although the oft-cited January intelligence report “uses the strongest language and offers the most detailed assessment yet,” The Atlantic observed that “it does not or cannot provide evidence for its assertions.” Noting the “absence of any proof” and “hard evidence to back up the agencies’ claims that the Russian government engineered the election attack,” The New York Times concluded that the intelligence community’s message “essentially amounts to ‘trust us.’” That remains the case today. [...] These imperatives have incentivized a compromised set of journalistic and evidentiary standards. In Russiagate, unverified claims are reported with little to no skepticism. Comporting developments are cherry-picked and overhyped, while countervailing ones are minimized or ignored. Front-page headlines advertise explosive and incriminating developments, only to often be undermined by the article’s content, or retracted entirely.

A dangerous fiction, nonetheless, as it is being used to justify online censorship of alternative media voices unfettered by corrupt corporate influence.

Google dropped RT from the preferred lineup last month. Andrea Faville, a Google spokeswoman, said the decision was unrelated to the congressional inquiry, and that RT had been dropped as part of a “standard algorithmic update.” But Google also noted that it was not placing any other limits on RT: The channel could still sell regular ads on its videos and the status downgrade only applied in the United States. Google later clarified that RT was downgraded in other markets, but it would not say which ones. Kirill Karnovich-Valua, RT’s deputy editor in chief, said the organization had not been informed of Google’s decision and it was puzzled about why it was dropped despite being “one of the most watched YouTube channels in the world.” “This speaks to the unprecedented political pressure increasingly applied to all RT partners and relationships in a concerted effort to push our channel out of the U.S. market entirely, and by any means possible,” Mr. Karnovich-Valua wrote in an email. Last month, RT said the Justice Department had demanded that a private company affiliated with RT America register as a “foreign agent” — a term that dates back to a law originally enacted in 1938 to deter Nazi propaganda

The Empire is fighting back for all its worth, determined to block any news outlets that don't carry the official corporate sanction of approval. The Pravda on the Hudson (i.e., NY Times) is one of their main sources of psy-ops campaigns against the American people. As they say in the movies: