[New Yorker] Nasim Aghdam, the YouTube shooting, and the anxiety of demonetization
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/nasim-aghdam-the-youtube-shooting-and-the-anxiety-of-demonetization In January, YouTube raised the threshold for monetization to a thousand subscribers and four thousand "watch hours" per month; any channel with numbers below that would no longer be eligible to receive ad revenue. The change was the latest in a series of attempts by YouTube to improve the friendliness of the platform to advertisers by cutting down on malicious content. Last March, an investigation in the Times of London revealed that YouTube's automated ad-placing system had gone awry; in one case, a promotional video by L'Oral appeared after a sermon by the Baptist preacher Steven Anderson, whose church the Southern Poverty Law Center classifies as a hate group. Major advertisers boycotted. - - - ALSO: "How YouTube's Ad Restrictions Have Gone Very Wrong" - https://lauren.vortex.com/2018/04/05/how-youtubes-ad-restrictions-have-gone-very-wrong --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lau...@vortex.com): https://www.vortex.com/lauren Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com Google Issues Mailing List: https://vortex.com/google-issues Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list https://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad
