That article from Ecuador about the water rights...

I stumbled across a report last week about a village in Ecuador where their water access story got pulled from local news channels. I was pretty skeptical at first, figured it was just some conspiracy stuff, but then I found court documents showing the government actually blocked the broadcast for "public order" reasons. Has anyone else run into a story that seemed made up until you dug deeper into the official records?

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shanel1315d ago

I saw something similar about a water protest in India that got scrubbed from YouTube.

terry_bailey3515d ago

Start using something like yt-dlp to grab copies of videos you care about. I learned this the hard way after a few local news clips vanished overnight. Companies and governments scrub stuff all the time, especially when it makes them look bad. You can't rely on YouTube to keep anything up, even if it seems innocent. Just download it immediately and keep it on a hard drive. Saves you the headache later.