YouTube admitted to The Daily Caller News Foundation that some of its newer content moderators “may misapply some of our policies resulting in mistaken removals.”
In other words, YouTube, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, is going overboard in its more recent purges of conservative or alt-right social media accounts. Bloomberg was the first to report on YouTube’s comments.
YouTube enlisted 10,000 employees in December specifically to oversee accounts and the content they produce. And they seemed to be especially utilized during the aftermath of the mass school shooting in Parkland Florida. A number of highly erroneous conspiracy theories were peddled on the platform by a number of fringe accounts, and YouTube ultimately removed them, but not before they reached massive amounts of people.
The popular platform’s methods for confining and censoring users include…
