Google May Be Altering YouTube View Counts

This can't be serious, looking at "newspapair" it seems to be some sort of crowdsourced news site?

Youtube has been caching view counts for years. Every single person who has popular videos will confirm this.

I wish I could downvote links...

This is a completely useless article. The only evidence presented is that YouTube is altering view counts is "One CNS News reader reported the likes to be at 838 on March 23." The rest of the article just describes what the rest of the internet already knows: View counts are not updated in real-time and are subject to scrutiny by spam checkers.

Seriously, there is no evidence from anywhere in this article. Their quote from YouTube offers a clear explanation of what is going on. Followed by: "Both CNS News and Alex Jones' Infowars.com suspects that there is more to it then just “standard policy”. Neither what it is that they suspect, nor why they suspect it (other than trying to make it look like they're being censored) is mentioned.

You can downvote the article at newspapair.com or alter it with your own findings.