Fake Elon Musk livestreams promoting crypto scams have plagued YouTube for days

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4 points·tslocum··5 comments

I tried submitting the following article yesterday:

https://mashable.com/article/fake-elon-musk-crypto-scam-yout...

The scam streams are entirely or nearly identical in content. Considering the scale of automated copyright detection that takes place at YouTube, why are these identical/similar streams still on YouTube days after being reported on in the media?

Not days, years. You tried and you were successful (10 points, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40804478

As was @gggggs Australian Channel Seven's YouTube channels replaced with Musk crypto-scams (12 points, 2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40806970

@belter 23 days ago AI-generated Elon Musk videos flood YouTube with fake crypto scams (3 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40575632

@paulpauper a year ago YouTube accused of failing to tackle fake Elon Musk livestream scams (5 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34224233

@marban/ @samizdiz/ @paulpaper 2 years ago (3+3+5 points, 1+0+5 comments)

Fake Tesla YouTube channel with 1.7M subscribers, OMFG!

They hack existing Google/YouTube accounts, delete their videos and rebrand it to an Elon Musk scam. This is why they have so many users. Google is a joke.

Days? 3 years

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