"alarming and dangerous" and hoped that other media organizations would speak out against "the onslaught of censorship against leftist channels." Chariton said that it was part of a wider trend to remove "independent and progressive channels" which advertisers found unfavourable, done by Youtube under the pretext of "removing extremist right-wing content". He stated "it is corporate censorship by YouTube" aimed at appeasing "corporate advertisers". Chariton has shifted his previous stance supporting the removal of outlets for disseminating conspiracy theories to one having the "right" to say controversial views or information "dressed up as journalism" as long as calls for violence are not made. He opposes Big Tech platforms "making decisions to avoid regulation determining through their algorithm what is and isn't trustworthy news". Labor Movement Chariton has covered the resurgence of the American labor movement, focusing on union drives and worker strikes around the country. In 2020 and 2021, Chariton covered the union drive of Amazon workers at the JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, interviewing workers at the warehouse many times and breaking stories on Amazon's union busting. JFK8 workers went on to win a historic union victory, becoming Amazon's first unionized warehouse. Chariton was in Buffalo, NY, for the Buffalo Starbucks' historic union campaign and victory, interviewing workers on-the-ground in Buffalo ahead of their victory. Chariton covered the historic, and successful, strike waged by John Deere workers, interviewing workers at picket lines in Iowa and Illinois. Chariton has also reported on strikes launched by coal miners in Alabama, Frito Lay workers in Kansas, and Nabisco workers in Oregon, which was cited and linked to by CBS News. Controversies In November 2017, HuffPost contributor, Christian Chiakulas, accused Chariton in a HuffPost blog of sexually assaulting activist and reporter, Carly Hammond, who worked with him at his former news organization, Truth Against the Machine. The accusation impacted Chariton's standing at The Young Turks, from which he was put on leave following the article. Chariton said he was stunned at the accusation, and two eyewitnesses came forward backing up Chariton’s account. HuffPost, which did not vet the blog post before publishing it, took it down within 24 hours and Chiakulas later walked back the accusation, saying: “The reasons I wrote the story are hard to explain — the circumstances around which it were written are complicated...I rushed out that article and was thrust into the middle of this. In hindsight, it was