Neal Mohan
Mainstream news is soaring on YouTube thanks to “authoritativeness ranking scores”
YouTube is cementing the dominance of major news networks.
Traditional TV broadcasts are boosted on YouTube while independent creators suffer in recommendations
Viewers can’t avoid being pushed TV show content on what was once a platform for independent creators.
YouTube is training thousands of raters to enforce its new harassment policy
YouTube has already removed comedy videos and political commentary videos under this policy.
Facebook plans to license legacy media news content after suppressing many indie creators from its platforms
Facebook’s plans are the latest example of big tech platforms making it harder for independent creators to thrive.
YouTube deletes Soph’s channel after her latest video was removed for “hate speech”
Soph has had multiple videos removed and faced temporary suspensions after she was the subject of a BuzzFeed hit piece in May.
YouTube chief proposes “positive discrimination” of “authoritative sources” like CNN over indie creators
YouTube appears to be turning its back on the users that built the platform.
YouTube says new “creator-on-creator harassment” rules are coming
This comes after Vox host Carlos Maza claimed that comedian Steven Crowder’s jokes about him constituted “harassment.”
The idea that YouTube recommendations are radicalizing people to the “right wing” is a myth perpetrated as a tactic to call for censorship
Many of these people make livings off of their right to free speech, yet Kevin Roose still insists that we ban them, just because he doesn’t like it?