misinformation

• YouTube Suspends ‘OANN’ From Monetization, Strikes Channel For Repeated COVID Misinformation
• Congressional Committee Pens Letter Urging YouTube To Stop “Incentivizing Climate Misinformation”

  Congress thinks YouTube should be doing more to combat climate misinformation. Kathy Castor, the chairwoman of the U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis has written a letter to YouTube's parent company, Google, urging it to take action and requesting a response about how it intends to do by Feb. 7, CNBC reports.

  
• Google Will No Longer Allow Political Ad Targeting Based On Party Affiliation, Voter Records

  Google has finally weighed on the political ad debate -- a conundrum facing every major tech platform in the run-up to the 2020 election, as they weigh how how to contend with a proliferation of misinformation that was discovered to have been weaponized in the last Presidential contest.

  
• Susan Wojcicki On YouTube’s Fight Against Grotesque Content: “I Own This Problem, And I’m Going To Fix It”

  Amid a slew of bad news for YouTube -- including scandals involving conspiracy theories and pedophiles -- The New York Times sat down with CEO Susan Wojcicki for a wide-ranging profile, describing her as “the most measured person in tech” even as her company is facing harrowing horrors at seemingly every turn.