12/22/21, 10:01 PM How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation | MIT Technology Review The materials show how the Cambodian operators gather research on the best-performing content in each country and plagiarize them for their clickbait websites. One Google Drive folder shared within the community has two dozen spreadsheets of links to the most popular Facebook groups in 20 countries, including the US, the UK, Australia, India, France, Germany, Mexico, and Brazil. The tutorial video also shows how they find the most viral YouTube videos in different languages and use an automated tool to convert each one into an article for their site. We found 29 YouTube channels spreading political misinformation about the current political situation in Myanmar, for example, that were being converted into clickbait articles and redistributed to new audiences on Facebook. One of the YouTube channels spreading political misinformation in Myanmar. Google ultimately took it down. After we brought the channels to its attention, YouTube terminated all of them for violating its community guidelines, including seven that it determined were part of coordinated influence Subscribeserving 2 free stories remaining Sign in also stopped operations linked to Myanmar. Choi noted that YouTube had previously https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/11/20/1039076/facebook-google-disinformation-clickbait/ 21/27