Roasting the Press Episode 73 for Sunday, June 1st, 2025
CBC’s Hit Piece Gets Conservative YouTuber “Real Talk Politiks“ De-Platformed from YouTube Because CBC Can't Compete and Reporter Scared to Talk About "Tattoo’s"
CBC’s Hit Piece Gets Conservative YouTuber “Real Talk Politiks“ De-Platformed from YouTube Because it Can’t Compete
Concerns are growing over CBC News, Canada’s publicly funded broadcaster, after it posted a propaganda piece accusing a direct, online competitor of being a “content farm” focused on optimizing YouTube algorithm in “search of views and revenue.”
The channel, operating under the title Real Talk Politiks was subsequently deleted from YouTube.
You’d think the circulation department of the giant “content farm” known as the CBC would also be focusing on “views and revenue“ as part of their daily responsibilities.
But the CBC staff who put together the four minute segment and made inquiries to YouTube regarding the methodologies used by the small independent content creator seem to believe otherwise.
Before being deleted from YouTube, the Real Talk Politiks was focused around Canadian and international politics, using short snippets of heavily edited content to make larger points of the state of the world.
It was essentially a direct competitor to CBC, more successful but with fewer resources. It’s indicative of a move away from established media institutions like the CBC to independent “news influences,” operating under a different revenue model.
For more on this, check out the November 26th, 2024 Scott Vicknair Personal Injury Lawyers on YouTube post, “Social Media vs. Legacy Media in Today's World.”
As outlined in the May 23rd, 2025 CBC News post, “This Canadian 'content farm' topped the politics charts on YouTube — before it was taken down,” Real Talk Politiks was the most popular Canada-based news and politics channel on YouTube during much of the 2025 federal election.
But the channel was taken down by YouTube, following “inquiries from CBC News's visual investigations team and Radio-Canada's Décrypteurs.“
According to the CBC:
Real Talk Politiks regularly published confrontational, partisan video clips about politics that have been watched by millions of people.
The channel racked up almost 70 million views from April 3 to April 30, according to data from ViewStats.com.
It's currently the third-most viewed Canada-based news and politics channel over the last three months.
CBC sounds jealous, but it shouldn’t be.
The public broadcaster gets $1.5 billion a year from Canadian taxpayers whether or not anyone watches their programs. Outlets like Real Talk Politiks are essentially small businesses, receiving far smaller sums depending on public interest and their distribution capabilities.
Here’s CBC’s victory lap, celebrating its role in shutting down Real Talk Politiks.
It’s the May 23rd, 2025 CBC News on YouTube post, “YouTube shuts down 'Real Talk Politiks' after CBC News inquiries.”
Canadian independent media outlet Rebel News doesn’t like what CBC claims to have accomplished.
They allege that CBC was directly responsible for getting Real Talk Politiks banned from YouTube and allege that CBC has attempted to de-platform other media outlets (including Rebel News) who provide perspectives at odds with CBC’s pro-government stance.
The May 30th, 2025 Rebel News post, “CBC gets viral conservative creator banned — then brags about it,” quotes the anonymous content creator behind the Real Talk Politiks site as saying:
I was a Canadian entrepreneur selling a service, making money, paying taxes, and they decided to shut me down just because they didn't like my political views.
According to the Rebel post:
The channel’s creator, an anonymous Canadian entrepreneur, claimed CBC contacted him under the pretense of a story on “successful Canadian content creators” before his channel was banned for violating YouTube’s policies on “spam, deceptive practices, and scams.”
The Rebel News post suggests CBC’s involvement was politically motivated, targeting the creator’s conservative views, and that CBC is currently attempting to dodge accountability for its actions, after a public outcry on X publicized the story.
The May 31st, 2025 Rebel News on YouTube post, “CBC gets viral conservative creator banned—then brags about it,” includes an interview with the content creator who ran Real Talk Politiks.
He seems to have reasonable concerns over his safety, and requested anonymity before granting the interview. Here’s a short snippet from the longer piece.
While Real Talk Politiks is no longer available on YouTube, it’s still available on “X,” and other social media platforms. It certainly has the ability to remonetize and reinvent itself on other social media channels.
If CBC was smart, they’d hire those associated with Real Talk Politiks, to replace its existing circulation and distribution department. After all, the small independent has outcompeted the best the CBC currently has on staff.
But this isn’t the first time a small independent has been demonetized in Canada.
Over the last five years, literally hundreds of YouTube, FaceBook and other platforms with anti-government messages have been shut down and de-platformed, for speaking out contrary to government policy.
By labeling the channel a “content farm,” without even explaining what a content farm is rather than engaging with its actual content, CBC sidesteps accusations of censorship while implying the ban was justified.
It’s worth noting that CBC is also essentially a big, well funded “content farm” for Canadian government approved propaganda.
It competed, unsuccessfully, against the small independent Real Talk Politiks on YouTube and continues to compete against other online outlets in an attempt to create new distribution channels to replace the traditional, but fast declining, costly and infrastructure heavy television and radio distribution it was founded on.
CBC also has a pattern of targeting conservative news outlets. For example, during the 2025 Canadian Federal election, CBC came after Rebel News, twice.
On April 18, 2025 , CBC hosts Rosemary Barton and David Cochrane criticized Rebel News’s presence at the leaders’ debates, calling them “very, very right-wing” and suggesting the Debates Commission should exclude them. Rebel News won court injunctions in 2019 and 2021 affirming their right to attend, yet CBC’s hosts pressured the commission on air, framing Rebel as “non-journalistic.”
On April 21, 2025, CBC was forced to correct Barton’s claim that Rebel News spread misinformation about Indigenous children’s remains, admitting no graves were recovered. Rebel News called this a smear, accusing CBC of lying to discredit them.
Of course, while the CBC focuses on their competitor’s content and political bias to question legitimacy, its well known that there are also legitimate concerns over the tricks some content farms use to make their content “go viral.”
If the CBC focused on some of those techniques, perhaps their content creation would get more respect from the fast changing media ecosystem we all inhabit.
An example of one of the less legitimate, less savory techniques of content farming, is discussed in the October 27th, 2023 damnitdarrell on TikTok post, “Exploring the Underbelly of Virality: TikToker Unveils Phone Farm Tactics for Boosting Video Views!”
Just remember; no one, not even the CBC, has accused Real Talk Politiks or Rebel News of unethically boosting their views.
CBC dislikes only the politics of the competition, not their distribution techniques.
Reporter Scared to Talk About Tattoo’s
And finally tonight, here’s the May 25th, 2025 Mongo Minds on Bitchute post, “Reporter Scared To Talk About Tattoo’s.”
Its officially a follow-on to the CBC piece showing that the US legacy media has most of the same problems and biases as Canadian legacy media.
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