Russia’s Favored Outlet Is an Online News Giant. YouTube Helped.

Link to a NYT article that describes how Russia utilizes YouTube as a "“principal international propaganda outlet” and implements it in internet "warfare" operations around the world. While Kremlin-aligned agents secretly built fake Facebook groups to foment political division and deployed hordes of Twitter bots to stoke criticism of Hillary Clinton, RT worked out in the open, bolstered by one of the largest online audiences of any news organization in the world and a prominent presence on YouTube’s search result.