"has lost $70 billion off its market cap"
As misleading as the hyperlink is, the actual article headline doesn't lie. Your thread title however is a lie.

My question was is this thread borne out of malicious intent (ie. a lie) or ignorance (do you just not know the truth?).

Because, no, they did NOT lose 70 billion dollars. The market cap may have decreased by 70 billion dollars, but they made a profit of 6.6 billion dollars. To reiterate, that's a profit, NOT a loss.

Oh and also, those figures (as well as the market cap ones) are for Alphabet, NOT youtube.

So please get your facts straight before spreading fake news.

Losing market cap is not losing money. They still have the same amount of money as they had before (well, actually they have 6.6 billion more than they had before, but the point still stands). So Alphabet did not lose money, fact.

Did the investors lose money? Only if they bought their stocks the day before and then immediately panic sold them. But I'd assume most, if not all of them, are smart enough to realise panic selling is a bad thing to do and that not only will the stock price recover if selling is their intent (although to be honest if their intent was to profit from selling they probably should have done so sooner anyway) but they'll also be earning money from dividends still.

Youtube being owned by Google.Alphabet is irrelevant. When Sony post their earnings their overall profit/loss isn't presented as PlayStation's profit/loss (because that would simply be incorrect), the actual profit/loss for PlayStation individually is posted as PlayStation's profit/loss.

It is fake news. It's literally a lie. It's false information. It's not even misleading, it's just flat out wrong. It's sensational and clickbait as well, but it's also simply wrong.

And you not only posting lies but actually having the audacity to defend them makes me think this was done to push your agenda rather than due to ignorance (kind of figured that from the OP anyway though).

Oh and as for your suggestion to watch the video, why? Why on earth would I watch a video posted by a liar? It lost all credibility the moment it was posted with a lie in the title.

And when did it go woke anyway. I get recommended videos by alt right morons "owning the left" all the time.

There are things wrong, actually (you can look at Rule 3 for reference: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8551507#content). So, as I requested, please change it. Maybe try: 'YouTube loses 70 billion dollars' or 'YouTube has just lost a lot of money'. 

Ok, just continue to wallow in ignorance then.