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The entire content on the YouTube channel of _Mojo Story_, a digital news organisation run by journalist Barkha Dutt, has been “all deleted by hackers”, Dutt said in a_tweet_ on Monday.

Meanwhile, stand-up comedian and YouTuber Tanmay Bhat also said that his YouTube and gmail accounts have been hacked, breaching two-factor authentication. While the _Mojo Story_’s YouTube

page said, “This channel doesn't have any content”, Tanmay Bhat's channel still had 473 videos. Both the accounts featured US automotive company Tesla's picture, and

Bhat's channel even live streamed the company's event. _Mojo Story_’s content was wiped off despite “hours of urging YouTube to act” and being assured that “action is being taken”,

Dutt said. “This could have been stopped… now, it’s gone.” The founder-editor of _Mojo Story _had reportedly urged YouTube many times since yesterday to “freeze the platform so that the

hackers could not alter it.” To which, she said, officials of the video sharing platform told her that the “process of investigation has to be followed”. _Mojo Story_ had 11,000 videos on

YouTube, put up over four years, including three years of reportage on Covid-19 pandemic in India. “Four years of blood, toil, sweat, tears… all gone. I am heartbroken,” Dutt said in the

tweet. “I feel someone took a knife through my heart is all I can say.” Following the incident, Twitter witnessed an outpour of anger and disappointment by journalists, politicians, lawyers

and viewers of _Mojo Story_. Many of them urged YouTube to “rectify this” and “restore the channel”. Founded in 2019, the website of _Mojo Story_ describes itself as a “feisty team of

independent broadcast journalists”.