OVALmedia’s German director Robert Cibisclaimed in various interviews that his company's creative content - four episodes of a documentary about the Covid era - were unfairly confiscated in what could be interpreted as a propaganda strategy termed ‘black-shelving’.
This is when uncomfortable knowledge, sensitive and/or counter-narrative content is delayed, skewed, watered-down, shadow-banned or censored altogether, in an attempt to limit its potentially explosive impact on the public.