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YouTube kills ads on 50,000 channels as advertisers flee over disturbing child content
For the second time in less than a year, major advertisers are fleeing YouTube after finding their ads were paired with offensive content — this time, directed at children. And the number of disturbing videos targeted at child audiences is much larger than previously known, YouTube’s response reveals.
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That's not disturbing at all. I mean it's not like Youtube is part of one of the biggest companies in the world, and could easily afford to fix an issue like this, right?
Besides, as highlighted elsewhere, Youtube quickly claimed this was a tiny problem, whereas even just a quick search shows that this is an issue across a ton of accounts, and with a looooot more videos than the 150,000 they've deleted so far. If these accounts are able to programmatically make dozens of new videos a week (or a day), this feels like mopping up the ocean. Of shit.
Silicon Valley companies: "our product(s) will make the world a better place!"
IRL: Putinbots spreading lies on social media, companies selling you DRMed juice packs and a rise in teen suicides partly caused by excessive Facebook usage.
I read something along those lines the other day and was surprised, I would have figured depression would cause one to be on social media more, but the relationship seems to go the other way.