@BenHodgesUpdates: How to Spot YouTube Spreading Russian AI Propaganda (opens in new tab)

YouTube has been surfacing a LOT of synthetic war content lately, and the attribution question deserves more care than the platform gives it. The @BenHodgesUpdates channel is not Hodges, not affiliated with him, and the production cadence is impossible for genuine interviews. Whether it runs for ad revenue or for Moscow, or both, matters less than you’d think, because hyper-inflated Ukrainian victory content serves Putin’s KGB-trained interests either way: saturate the audience with imminent ...