Inside Saudi Crown Prince’s Ruthless Quest for Power

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VICE PULLED A DOCUMENTARY CRITICAL OF SAUDI ARABIA. BUT HERE IT IS.   
Vice's hard-nosed coverage on Saudi Arabia changed after investment deals with the repressive kingdom. A deleted documentary is not completely gone, however.
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/09/vice-deleted-documentary-saudi-arabia/?

IN THE PAST, Vice has documented the history of censorship on YouTube. More recently, since the company's near implosion, it became an active participant in making things disappear.

In June, six months after announcing a partnership deal with a Saudi Arabian government-owned media company, Vice uploaded but then quickly removed a documentary critical of the Persian Gulf monarchy's notorious dictator, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, or MBS.

The nearly nine-minute film, titled "Inside Saudi Crown Prince's Ruthless Quest for Power," was uploaded to the Vice News YouTube channel on June 19, 2023. It garnered more than three-quarters of a million views before being set to "private" within four days of being posted. It can no longer be seen at its original link on Vice's YouTube channel; visitors see a message that says "video unavailable." Vice did not respond to a request for comment on why the video was published and then made private or if there are any plans to make the video public again.

The Guardian first reported that a "film in the Vice world news Investigators series about Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman was deleted from the internet after being uploaded." Though Vice did remove the film from its public YouTube channel, it is, in fact, not "deleted from the internet" and presently remains publicly accessible via web archival services.

Here's the link to the video:  https://web.archive.org/web/20230619171508oe_/https:/rr1---sn-a5meknde.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1687216503&ei=F42QZJLLC7-lsfIP2KmPyAY&ip=207.241.233.79&id=o-AEROfbz44ZtCs_WLF_mQbQkaIawXSKM_u0PS_8uz_008&itag=22&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&spc=qEK7B3RF-26fYE0-NAi8q79SdA4zKOc&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=video%2Fmp4&cnr=14&ratebypass=yes&dur=525.305&lmt=1687194023973012&fexp=24007246&c=ANDROID&txp=5532434&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cspc%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Ccnr%2Cratebypass%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AOq0QJ8wRAIgSBunBCETqV_xTbm4dFaS8RhxUTaL-xzhsZRpPNBQvC0CICOSvGqJPepTAjhJSeG8bRGinIt4mCGawiSa6LL7ph32&video_id=N-WyKGFy8as&redirect_counter=1&cm2rm=sn-n4vsl7s&req_id=2a61de9b1411a3ee&cms_redirect=yes&cmsv=e&mh=WD&mip=207.241.229.235&mm=34&mn=sn-a5meknde&ms=ltu&mt=1687194531&mv=m&mvi=1&pl=20&lsparams=mh,mip,mm,mn,ms,mv,mvi,pl&lsig=AG3C_xAwRQIhALUt-MWDx0SGRDuFZrVcShAPCI7DaiGEmGK9Ga8flTX3AiAfCMZeljhdw6b5T9xiw0fnJNui9blK7KcggBZ2C6nEWg%3D%3D