Fake news, child abuse, and jihadist recruiters: How YouTube’s reckoning arrived

YouTube has spent years operating like many other tech platforms: Hear no evil, see no evil. That’s no longer tenable. 

The Google-owned online video giant in recent weeks has been thrust to the front of the broader discussion about the role tech platforms have in regulating what is put onto their networks—and who it’s reaching. 

Facebook, Twitter, and others have faced similar challenges, but none appear as daunting as YouTube’s. The platform relies on its automated system to show ads against whatever videos are uploaded—and it has no good answers for the many questions that are starting to be asked of its ability to effectively moderate that system. Read more…

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