0% Removed. 106,020 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
106,020
Items Still Live
25.2M
LBC Staked on Flagged Content
977
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.
106,020
flagged items still live on Odysee — every single one accessible right now
100%
of flagged content is still active on Odysee — zero items removed
25.2M
LBC in tips and stake flowing to flagged content — Odysee earns 5% on every transaction
13,666
distinct channels hosting flagged content — across dozens of named figures profiled on this site
1,009,486.43
LBC staked on the single most-staked flagged item — pay-to-rank in plain sight
~1,260K
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
@AlexJonesChannel on Odysee — 1,825 Flagged Videos, the Single Largest Named-Channel Concentration on the Platform, Zero Removals
The most-deplatformed broadcaster in the English-speaking world — removed from YouTube, Facebook, Spotify, Apple, PayPal, and Twitter; $1.5B in Sandy Hook defamation judgments; Infowars in bankruptcy liquidation — runs the largest single named channel in our entire flagged dataset. 1,825 flagged items (~1.75% of all flagged content on Odysee), 179,311 LBC. Severity spread: 149 Conspiracy, 25 Incitement, 24 Hate Speech, 19 Terrorism, 7 Human Trafficking. Top stake: 'Submit to the Globalists' Medical Tyranny and Die' at 25,128 LBC.
Self-Stake Fifth Reading — @CosmicEvent Alone Holds 2,100,080 LBC Across Twelve Round-Number Six-Figure Stakes, the Largest Single-Channel Self-Stake Concentration on the Platform
Fifth measurement. @CosmicEvent has parked 2,100,080 LBC on twelve videos — eleven at exactly 100,000 LBC and one at exactly 1,000,000 LBC — all antisemitic / anti-Israel / COVID-conspiracy titles, all still 'Under Review', none actioned. We confirmed the 1,000,000-LBC and 100,000-LBC positions live against Odysee's own claim_search API on publication day. Platform-wide there are now 30 flagged items staked at exact multiples of 100,000 LBC; two are brand-new since the fourth reading (@OurFreeSociety, @StopTheCrime).
@DollarVigilante Update — the 254-Video Fortress Grew to 440 Videos and 600,480 LBC, a 70% Expansion Since April Despite Public Documentation
In April we documented Jeff Berwick's @DollarVigilante at 254 flagged videos and 352,362 LBC. Ten weeks and one Article 16 notice later the channel has grown to 440 flagged videos and 600,480 LBC — +186 items, +248,118 LBC, ~70% larger. The top stake is now 'Planet Mind Control' at 207,000 LBC (live-confirmed against Odysee's API). Current severity: 59 Conspiracy, 5 Hate Speech, 1 Terrorism ('US Terrorist Attack on Nordstream Pipeline'), 1 Human Trafficking, 1 Extremism. The fortress didn't shrink after exposure. It compounded.
Self-Stake Fourth Reading — 53 Channels, And Three New Single-Video Accounts That Fall Below The Analyser Threshold But Are The Cleanest Fingerprint Yet
Fourth measurement: 29 → 50 → 51 → 53. Pool grew +222K LBC in 16 days; Odysee's 5% take crossed a quarter-million LBC. The newest entries don't show in the count — three brand-new channels (@anonyme, @III, @uniónhispanoamericana) each posted exactly one video and staked exactly 100,000 LBC on it; threshold is 3+ videos. Two are explicitly antisemitic ('Sumerian Swindle', French Holocaust-coded). Plus @OzFlor formally classified at 200K LBC on AI-world-government framing.
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.