There are two larger videos on Ben Swann's 'Reality Check' segment on Pizzagate that I have happened to come across. One is Ben Swann's own Youtube video, which supposedly has about 15k views, and there is another (channel David Dobbs) with about 100k views. The video Swann posted on his Facebook page currently has over 500,000 views and 20,000 shares.
If you search for Ben Swann Pizzagate on Youtube, only a handful of videos on the subject show up, with an average of about 2k views. Neither Ben Swann's own video or the David Dobbs video show up on Youtube search. Youtube has been caught repeatedly modifying view counts to make a movement seem insignificant and memory-holing/de-listing viral videos, and this appears to be another example.
As noted, CBS has also taken down Swann's video from their website 'our apologies, page is currently unavailable' (http://www.cbs46.com/clip/13036440/reality-check-is-pizzagate-fake-news)).
I encourage everyone to test this out to confirm whether it is happening with respect to Youtube.
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SpikyAube ago
When I search Ben Swann Pizzagate loads of video show up, and if I filter by view count, the David Hobbs one is at the top with 148982 views, and Swann's video is third in the list with around 15k views. Maybe it is the way your search is filtered, like it's showing the most recent videos first or something?
psmith85 ago
No it was set to 'Relevance' which is the default search filter. You have to go out of your way to change to view count. And neither of them show up at all as relevant, not even on 3rd/4th page.
SpikyAube ago
Ahhh I see, I thought it was suggested that they'd completely disappeared from search results.
psmith85 ago
They have completely disappeared. If you have the default search filter of 'Relevance,' they don't show up at all using the terms Ben Swann Pizzagate. You have to search for the channel and then enter the channel in order to see the video.
SpikyAube ago
When I have the default filter on with that search, Ben Swann's video is third in the list. Maybe it's to do with our locations, I'm in Europe, maybe it's not censored here?