0% Removed. 104,094 Still Live.
Faurisson, Reynouard, Zündel — three convicted Holocaust deniers are featured in a single video on Odysee right now. Odysee's four employees have not removed it. They have not removed anything.
"Just being a white nationalist or nazi isn't grounds for removal."
— Julian Chandra, Odysee CEO (then LBRY VP), leaked internal email to moderators (obtained by The Guardian, May 2021). Still Odysee's stated policy.
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Removal Rate
104,094
Items Still Live
21.8M
LBC Staked on Flagged Content
931
Days Since Odysee Acknowledged Any Removal
What Is Odysee?
Odysee is a video-sharing platform built on the LBRY blockchain protocol, launched in September 2020 by CEO Jeremy Kauffman. Positioned as a "free speech" alternative to YouTube, it quickly attracted creators deplatformed from mainstream services — many for promoting extremism and terrorism. GNET researcher Eviane Leidig named it "The New YouTube for the Far-Right" in a 2021 research paper.
In May 2021, The Guardian obtained a leaked internal email from LBRY VP Julian Chandra stating "just being a white nationalist or nazi isn't grounds for removal". This email — accidentally sent to the user who complained about neo-Nazi content — revealed the real moderation philosophy behind Odysee's paper Community Guidelines. 23 independent investigations from SPLC, GNET, ISD, DFRLab, CheckFirst, EU DisinfoLab, The Guardian, GBH News, Miami New Times, and Protos have since documented systematic non-enforcement.
The SPLC's Data Lab tracked 165 extremist channels hosting 50,459 videos over 28 months, finding $336,000 in Hyperchat tips from 4,557 donors to hate groups. Named profiteers include a Charlottesville fugitive earning $33,023 while evading law enforcement, a neo-fascist novelist earning $65,362, and an antisemitic broadcaster banned from every major payment platform except Odysee making $7,000+/month.
GBH News traced Odysee's origins to a $300,000 seed investment from Pillar VC, a downtown Boston venture capital firm. The DFRLab found Odysee hired the developer behind Bitwave — a streaming site so saturated with white supremacist content that the Christchurch mosque shooting video was found on its servers. That infrastructure now powers Odysee's live streams.
Why This Matters
When a platform fails to moderate illegal content, the consequences go beyond policy violations. Real people are harassed, extremist movements are funded, and terrorist propaganda reaches new audiences.
Blockchain Permanence
Content published to LBRY is replicated across decentralized nodes globally. Even if Odysee removes a video from their frontend, the underlying data persists on-chain and can be accessed through alternative LBRY clients like the LBRY Desktop app. This makes removal functionally impossible once content is published.
Monetized Extremism
Odysee's built-in LBC tipping system allows viewers to send cryptocurrency directly to creators — including designated terrorist organizations, neo-Nazi propagandists, and channels that doxx and threaten individuals. The SPLC found over $336,000 in tips directed to identified hate groups.
Systematic Inaction
Reports from users go unanswered for weeks or months. Community Guidelines exist on paper but are not enforced consistently. The GNET, ISD Global, CheckFirst, and multiple investigative journalists have independently documented this pattern of negligent moderation.
Real-World Harm
This is not an abstract policy debate. Victims of doxxing on Odysee have faced real-world stalking. Terrorist recruitment videos have reached thousands of viewers. Drug synthesis tutorials, weapons manufacturing guides, and fraud how-tos are monetized and promoted by the platform's recommendation algorithm.
What We Monitor
Our automated scanning system checks Odysee daily across 14 categories of illegal and violating content.
The Numbers Don't Lie
Our automated scanner crawled Odysee and found thousands of items that violate the platform's own Community Guidelines. Here's what the data shows.
104,094
flagged items still live on Odysee — every single one accessible right now
100%
of flagged content is still active on Odysee — zero items removed
21.8M
LBC in tips and stake flowing to flagged content — Odysee earns 5% on every transaction
13,442
distinct channels hosting flagged content — across dozens of named figures profiled on this site
1,000,003
LBC staked on the single most-staked flagged item — pay-to-rank in plain sight
~1,090K
LBC in platform fees Odysee earned from flagged content (5% cut)
Repeat Offender Channels
These channels have dozens to hundreds of flagged videos and continue operating with zero enforcement from Odysee:
Original Reporting
Latest Investigations
@SouthFront on Odysee — 221 Items of EU-Sanctioned and OFAC-Designated Russian Military Disinformation, Still Live
SouthFront is on the EU's Council Decision (CFSP) 2022/350 list AND the US Treasury OFAC SDN list. Odysee hosts the channel with 221 flagged items and 18,145 LBC tipped — pure Russian war propaganda titles ('Moscow Crushes Zelensky's Truce Theater', 'Russia's Surge In Military Production'). Distribution-prohibition in force; the platform processes the tip flow and takes its 5%.
@Alchimie on Odysee — 132 Items of French-Language Hezbollah Operational Propaganda, Including Mujahideen Communiqués and Martyrdom Announcements
Single French channel posting verbatim Hezbollah Resistance media — Mujahideen communiqués, Merkava tank destruction reports, Nasrallah martyrdom announcements — plus antisemitic 'Ben-Gvir is a nazi' framings. 128 of 132 items surfaced by the 2026-06-02 deep-sweep. Hezbollah is EU-listed terrorism (Council Decision 2024/1136) and UK-proscribed (Terrorism Act 2000 §3).
Channel Records — Five Unnamed Odysee Channels Holding 4,062 Flagged Videos and Half a Million LBC Between Them, Including a Comment-Section That Reads Like A Stormer Forum
@SaltyCracker (1,442 flagged, 394K LBC — record-holder), @RebelNews (1,124, 50K LBC, Canadian right-wing post-Stripe), @DrBerg (502, 24K LBC, FDA-warned chiropractor), @themastersvoiceprophecyblog (492 on a 168-day-old channel), and @iHypocrite — whose 'You Can't Stop Progress' series accounts for 10 of the top 15 videos in our comment_flags dataset with a Streicher-named commenter and a literal '1488 fuck jews' post.
What The Deeper Sweep Surfaced — 5,506 New Flagged Items, 657 New Channels, And A 334-Item Terrorism Bump Including A Russian State-Aligned Channel And A French-Language Hezbollah Network
Re-running the scanner at MAX_PAGES=50 (vs default 10) against a keyword set expanded with 45 new 2026 terms (Tarrant/Gendron manifestos, Nordic Resistance Movement, Atomwaffen, Wagner, Hezbollah, biolab, denazification). Result: 98,588 → 104,094 items, +5,506 new, +657 channels, +334 Terrorism, +224 Hate Speech, +46 Threats, +31 Incitement, +1 CSAM (reported to NCMEC). Reproducibility narrative.
In Their Own Words
"[Groups like the Proud Boys] should be allowed to speak to others that want to hear them."
— Jeremy Kauffman, Odysee CEO, after the January 6 Capitol insurrection (Proud Boys leaders later convicted of seditious conspiracy)
"The most censorship-resistant system to ever exist for the purposes of publishing digital content."
— Jeremy Kauffman, Odysee CEO, describing the LBRY protocol (cited in SPLC Digital Threat Report)
"A healthy democracy requires free speech."
— Sam Williams, Forward Research CEO, dismissing the SPLC's findings when acquiring Odysee in June 2024 (The Block)
Help Hold Odysee Accountable
Whether you've been personally harassed, encountered illegal content, or want to support accountability — there are concrete steps you can take.