moderation
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YouTube Aims To Match Advertisers With “Edgier” Content
YouTube’s experimenting with matching subject-appropriate advertising with YouTubers whose videos may not fit the bill of “family friendly content” according to the platform’s moderation policies.
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YouTube Said It Was Getting Serious About Hate Speech. Why Is It Still Full Of Extremists?
Last month, YouTube announced a site-wide change to its hate speech policy, saying it would no longer tolerate videos promoting Nazism, white supremacy or any other content “alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion” of others due to qualities like race, gender, or sexual orientation.
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YouTube Clarifies Harassment Policy By Flailing Around Like A Big, Dumb Noodle
Less than 24 hours after determining that far-right buffoon Steven Crowder’s anti-gay harassment of Vox journalist Carlos Maza was basically fine, YouTube has reversed course—or, more accurately, has continued to fishtail around the road. This afternoon, the platform announced that it has now decided to demonetize Crowder’s channel, but for larger, vaguer reasons.
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Here’s 40 Pages Of Facebook Trying To Figure Out What To Do About White Nationalism
In the process of reporting a related story, a Facebook spokesperson provided Gizmodo with the company’s internal slides discussing its position on white nationalism and white separatism, adopted in late March. What follows is a glimpse into the confusing, often contradictory thinking of one of the most powerful and frequently inept companies on Earth.