YouTube said ABS-CBN’s YouTube channels were terminated due to violations of its terms of service about placing third-party advertisements.YouTube’s official statement only said the affected channels were hacked, not that they were terminated due to abuse of terms of service.Facebook flagged at least 4 videos containing this claim for fact checking. The videos had over 477,000 views combined as of writing.
In a statement on November 3, YouTube confirmed that the accounts ABS-CBN News and ABS-CBN News Channel were hacked on November 2 and that they were working with the ABS-CBN team to help retrieve them. “We take account security very seriously and notify account owners when we detect suspicious activity. If an owner has reason to believe their account was compromised, they can notify our team to secure the account and regain control,” YouTube said. The company further urged users to enable two-factor authentication to minimize the risk of hacking.
The YouTube accounts ABS-CBN News and ABS-CBN News Channel were inaccessible early morning on November 3. At the time, ABS-CBN said it detected a"technical problem" and was looking into the matter. Both accounts were then restored at 3:58 pm. The videos uploaded by channels “Pinoy Streamline” and “PINOY SUPERSTARS TV” were reuploaded on Facebook by pages “Philippine Political History” and “Top News Online.” These were then flagged for fact checkers to verify using Claim Check, Facebook’s monitoring tool that identifies suspicious posts on the platform. The YouTube videos had 129,862
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