You. Tube Stars Who Met With Feds to Grow Trump Themed Business Were Paid by Trump Campaign. A pair of familiar faces from the 2. US Commerce Departments Twitter account Monday afternoon. But by Tuesday morning they were gone. You. Tube stars Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardsonbetter known as Diamond and Silk, respectivelywere invited to the Commerce Departments headquarters this week, apparently to discuss ways in which they could expand their business. Argonics uploaded video to YouTube of the goats July 16 rampage on Monday, writing its staff was initially confused to discover nothing was stolen. Search or upload videos. Popular on YouTube Music, Sports, Gaming, Movies, TV Shows, News, Spotlight. Browse Channels. YouTube stars Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardsonbetter known as Diamond and Silk, respectivelywere invited to the Commerce Departments. Instantly find where to watch your favorite movies and TV shows. With WhereToWatch. TV show is playing, or if you can. In the video above from the Wired YouTube channel, magician David Kwong, and author of the book Spellbound, reveals the 7 Principles of Illusion. YouTubes latest push to ban terrorist propaganda across its ubiquitous video platform is getting off to a rough start. Earlier this week, noted investigative. Screen-Shot-2015-08-19-at-2.40.37-AM.png?itok=cCVKBR_Z' alt='Torrent Download My Life In Ruins Youtube' title='Torrent Download My Life In Ruins Youtube' />The pair runs a political blog aimed at promoting President Trump and denigrating his critics. The Commerce Department revealed Diamond and Silks visit in a photo posted on the departments official Twitter account, which said the duo had met with the Minority Business Development Agency MBDA to discuss how to grow their business and build their brand. The tweet was deleted hours later. A Commerce spokesperson told Gizmodo the tweet was deleted out of an abundance of caution as the department was not clear it had received permission to post the photo. Diamond and Silk were here to talk about minority business development, the spokesperson said. They reached out to the Acting National Director of MBDA, whom they had met previously, to discuss how best to help the minority business community. The spokesperson declined to elaborate on how the Commerce Department was helping Diamond and Silk build their brand. At present, they offer only two products in their online store, both Trump branded pins. Mondays meeting was arranged by Chris Garcia, a former Trump campaign advisor whom the president appointed acting head of the MBDA this year. The meeting would seem perfectly innocent, were it not for the fact that Diamond and Silk were paid Trump campaign consultants. The Trump campaign denied paying Diamond and Silk for their regular on stage appearances at political rallies. But an amendment to the campaigns 2. FEC report, released in May 2. You. Tube stars were in fact cut a check shortly after the election a meager 1,2. Questions had been raised by reporters last summer over what Trump aides brushed off as coincidence Ace Specialties, a company the Trump campaign reportedly paid more than 2 million for campaign swag, also supplied the pro Trump merchandise sold on Diamond and Silks website. A campaign spokesperson told ABC News in April 2. Diamond and Silk have never been paid by the campaign, which you can verify in our FEC reports. There is no connection with Ace. We very much appreciate the unwavering support and enthusiasm, from Diamond and Silk. Daniel Scavino, a Trump campaign advisor who now serves as the director of White House social media and assistant to the president, first invited the bloggers to attend a Republican debate in November 2. Politico reports. Two months later, Trump introduced Diamond and Silk at an event in Iowa by noting, Theyve become very famous and very rich. Later asked by a Politico reporter what Trump meant when he said theyd grown very rich, Diamond replied Ask Donald. The pair went on to stump for Trump in Mississippi, South Carolina, and Iowa, drawing energetic responses from crowds of 1. Days before the Nov. Lara Trump, the presidents daughter in law, at a North Carolina event, where they accused then candidate Hillary Clinton of considering herself a slave master. While their ties to Trump are often portrayed as a mere chance encounter, the pair now frequently rub elbows with the conservative elite. Theyve landed repeat appearances on Sean Hannitys Fox News program as well as his radio show. In April, they attended the wedding of White House political aide Omarosa Manigault, a quiet affair at the Trump International Hotel in Washington. Now after having been declared paid Trump campaign consultants, a former Trump campaign staffer is ushering the You. Tube celebrities into a federal office building, allegedly to help expand their Trump themed businessthe very existence of which remains curious, given Trumps propensity for suing people who try to profit off his name, even when their name also happens to be Trump. Journalist Nearly Banned from You. Tube and Gmail For Posting Al Qaeda Videos From Chelsea Manning Trial. You. Tubes latest push to ban terrorist propaganda across its ubiquitous video platform is getting off to a rough start. Earlier this week, noted investigative reporter and researcher Alexa OBrien woke to find that not only had she been permanently banned from You. Tube, but that her Gmail and Google Drive accounts had been suspended as well. She would later learn that a reviewer who works for Google had mistakenly identified her channel, in the words of a You. Tube representative, as being dedicated to terrorist propaganda. This drastic enforcement action followed months of notifications from You. Tube, in which OBrien was told that three of her videos had been flagged for containing gratuitous violence. None of the videos, however, depict any actual scenes of violence, except for one that includes footage of American helicopter pilots gunning down civilians in Iraq, which has been widely viewed on You. Tube for half a decade. While appealing You. Tubes decision, OBrien learned that the mechanism for correcting these mistakes can be vexing, and that a fair outcome is far from guaranteed. By Wednesday morning, her channel was slated for deletion. The Google Drive account she was locked out of contained hundreds of hours of researchor years worth of her workand was abruptly taken offline. She was then told that she was prohibited from accessing, possessing or creating any other You. Tube accounts. The ban was for life, and with little explanation and zero human interaction, OBriens research, much of it not accessible elsewhere, was bound for Googles trashcan. With the knowledge that You. Tube has faced increased pressure from the US and European governments to crack down on the spread of terrorist propagandaa consequence of which has led to the disappearance of content amassed by conflict reportersit wasnt difficult to deduce what had happened to OBriens account. The problem was eventually addressed and representatives of both Google and You. Tube later called OBrien to apologize and explain the error. When she was told that her channel had been misidentified as an outlet for terrorist propaganda, she could hardly contain her laughter. It was a series of unfortunate events, a You. Tube rep told her. The mistake, they explained, was the fault of a human reviewer employed by Google. A spokesperson for Google told Gizmodo on Friday With the massive volume of videos on our site, sometimes we make the wrong call. When its brought to our attention that a video or channel has been removed mistakenly, we act quickly to reinstate it. This for archival purposes. This is not for propaganda purposes. This year, You. Tube has begun increasingly relying on machine learning to find and scrub extremist content from its pagesa decision prompted by the successful online recruiting efforts of extremist groups such as ISIS. With over 4. 00 hours of content uploaded to You. Tube every minute, Google has pledged the development and implementation of systems to target and remove what it calls terror content. Last month, a You. Tube spokesperson admitted, however, that its programs arent perfect, nor are they right for every setting. But in many cases, the spokesperson said, its AI has proven more accurate than humans at flagging videos that need to be removed. In a call Wednesday, a You. Tube representative told Alexa Humans will continue to make mistakes, just like any machine system would obviously be flawed. The machine, which prioritizes the content reviewed by human eyes, wasnt quite ready, she said, to recognize the context under which controversial content is uploaded. The OBrien incident demonstrates that Google has many miles to go before its AI and human reviewers are skilled enough to distinguish between extremist propaganda and the investigative work that even Google agrees is necessary to broaden the publics knowledge of the intricate military, diplomatic, and law enforcement policies at play throughout the global war on terror. Al Qaeda and The As Sahb Tape. What prompted a Google reviewer to designate OBrienas a purveyor of terrorist content Well, for one, her channel contains actual al Qaeda propaganda. But that propaganda is also an important piece of US history A few years ago, it nearly cost former US Army Private Chelsea Manning a life sentence. OBriens channel contain portions of a June 2. Qaeda outlet As Sab Media featuring Adam Yahiye Gadahn, a US born al Qaeda operative in the Arabian Peninsula, whoin earlier jihadi propaganda tapes rebroadcast by US network newsreferred to himself as Azzam the American. In 2. Gadahn appeared in an al Qaeda documentary that features an introduction by Ayman al Zawahiri, the al Qaeda co founder and current leader of the organization who succeeded Bin Laden in 2. In January 2. 01. Gadahn was killed in Pakistan in a series of US drone strikes, which also claimed the lives of foreign aid workers Giovanni Lo Porto and Warren Weinstein. OBriens interest in Gadahn has nothing to do with spreading his views on the Great Satan or his prophesies of American streets run with blood. The footage she preserved using You. Tubes service, which was also embedded in an off site analysis, was used by military prosecutors to support criminal offenses at the court martial of Chelsea Manning. Microsoft Outlook A Program Is Trying To Access E Mail. The criminal proceedings against Manning lacked contemporaneous access to the court record. Only the work of reporters, like OBrien, who personally attended the trial, is available to the public. The As Sab video featuring Gadahn came into play after the US government accused Manning of aiding the enemy, a charge that, unlike most derived from the militarys code of justice, can be applied to civilians. And it carries a life sentence. Manning was accused of aiding Gadahn, legally defined in the court martial as an enemy of the US, because the As Sab video cites both Wiki. Leaks and the State Department cables that Manning leaked. An unidentified male narrator in the Gadahn video references, for example, the revelations of Wiki. Leaks, and claims they expose the subservience of the rulers of the Muslim world for their master America. The video also includes portions of the infamous Collateral Murder tape, which depicts American Apache pilots firing upon a group of men in Baghdad, killing among them two Reuters journalists. The excerpts contained in all three videos were squarely in the public interest. A stipulation in the criminal case reveals that the US government argued Osama bin Laden himself had been in receipt of, and consequently aided by, the intelligence Manning leaked. The evidence to support this, however, is classifiedall of it collected during the May 2, 2. Abbottabad compound. An analysis conducted by OBrien, which includes the portions of the As Sab video she uploaded to You. Tube, suggests that Bin Laden may have somehow received a copy of the video while hiding in Pakistan. A digital copy of the tape itself may even have been recovered by the US Navy SEALs that breached his compound during the CIA led mission that ended in Bin Ladens death.