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YouTube's Susan Wojcicki on the creator economy, competition, and staying ahead of misinformation

weforum.org/agenda/2022/05/davos-2022-mtl-susan-wojcicki-misinformation

Davos AgendaMay 27, 2022

YouTube Chief Executive Officer Susan Wojcicki speaking at Davos 2022

 

Image: World Economic Forum / Mattias N

 

This article is part of: World Economic Forum Annual Meeting

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YouTube Chief Executive Officer Susan Wojcicki explains how YouTube is tackling free speech in an era of increasing misinformation.

YouTube is one of the world's largest digital media platforms, but with its increased scale comes increased attention from bad actors and misinformation. YouTube Chief Executive Officer Susan Wojcicki discussed that challenge and shared the strategies the company is using to balance free speech and public trust in a special one-on-one session at the Annual Meeting in Davos.

 

"I think there'll always be work that we have to do because there will always be incentives for people to be creating misinformation," said Wojcicki. The challenge will be to keep staying ahead of that."

 

Read the transcript below.

 

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Alyson Shontell Lombardi: Hello, Davos. It is so nice to be with you in person. Even with warm weather! They should do warm weather Davos all the time, this is great. Okay.

 

Well, I'm here with a woman who needs absolutely no introduction, but I will try anyways. Susan Wojcicki was employee number 16 at Google. She now runs YouTube, and if YouTube were its own standalone company, it would be number 121 on the Fortune 500 list. She would be one of only 45 women to be on that list. She is one of the most powerful people in the world and in the world of business. She previously ran advertising for Google and the company was actually created in her garage. She was trying to get some money for rent and she rented it out to two guys who were building something and โ€” Google. So thank you for that.

 

So, Susan, on a little bit of a serious note. Things are feeling a little bit dreary in Davos. I mean, it is rainy, yes. But also economically, things aren't looking so great. We just ran a survey of the Fortune 500 CEOs and 75% feel a recession is coming in the next year or two. So, when you're looking at that and you're running a big company like YouTube, how are you thinking about the rest of the year? How are you planning for a potential downturn?

 

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Susan Wojcicki:Sure. Well, first of all, it's great to be here. And I agree, I like the nice weather. But if we look at the economy and we look at the situation, there definitely are a lot of concerning macro trends. I mean, the war, inflation in the US. But I would say with regard to YouTube's business and Google's business, we've always tried to take a long-term point of view and we see tremendous growth across the board. Technology continues to be an area of growth. We continue to see a lot of users moving to digital on demand type of content. And so, when you go through a downturn, I think it's important to keep that long term view. There may be areas where we may decide to delay starting a certain project. But in general, we're still saying this is an important business, we're going to grow, we're going to continue to invest here. What I have found is really interesting during downturns is that we actually get better at what we do. When your numbers are going up all the time, it's really easy to just be like, okay, you know, things are good. When they're going down or they're not going as fast as you expect, suddenly you are really digging into the details. And so having been through a couple of recessions at Google, that has been my experience. But I'd say in general, we're building for the long term and that's what we'll focus on.

 

Alyson Shontell Lombardi: Got it. So, no hiring freeze. Continuing, a little bit cautiously, but as planned. And that comes from what, three recessions you've watched at Google and YouTube?

 

Susan Wojcicki:Well, hopefully we won't have a third.

 

Alyson Shontell Lombardi:Exactly.

 

Susan Wojcicki: I have been through two so far. And it's challenging. I mean, there's no doubt about it. But I think you do come out of it stronger as a result.

 

Alyson Shontell Lombardi: So one of the reasons that there is this dreariness is there's a war going on. And the war has definitely impacted all businesses, global businesses, and it's certainly impacted Google and YouTube. A lot of social media companies have actually been banned. YouTube has not. It's still up and running. You're not monetizing there anymore. But how do you view YouTube's role in times of war?

 

Susan Wojcicki:So YouTube definitely is still serving in Russia, like you mentioned, and as soon as the war broke out, we realized this was an incredibly important time for us to get it right with regard to our responsibility. And, you know, we made a number of really, really tough decisions. One of them involved how we handled Russian state-sponsored media. We had lots of requests from various governments. But looking at our policy framework, we also decided to suspend that media globally. We also extended our policies with regard to how we handle verified violent events. So, an event that denies something like the Holocaust would be against YouTube policies. And what we saw was if there was denial or trivialization associated with the conflict, with the war in Ukraine, that would also become a violation. So, the first and most important thing for us was to really focus on the responsibility, figure out how we could be good players in making sure that users can get authoritative and the right information. And what we're really seeing in this conflict is that information does play a key role, that information can be weaponized. And that's why we wanted to focus so much on making sure that we both have the right policies and the enforcement associated with that.

 

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