From WaPo: "Hateful Conspiracies Thrive on YouTube" Call for a DIGG
WaPo came out a couple of days ago with an article, "Hateful Conspiracies Thrive on YouTube Despite Pledge to Clean Problematic Videos," just about the same time as Rolling Stone's article on John Podesta's response to Pizzagate and on the eve of Google CEO's Sundar Pichai's testimony to Congress.
This article is a hit piece attacking both "extremist" groups and YouTube for not taking more aggressive action to terminate the YT privileges of such groups. Since Google owns YouTube, the timing couldn't be better to coordinate an attack on YT from both the MSM and Congress (e.g., Jerry Nadler; see >>4262935 pb, >>4265250 pb)
The most lurid claims are made in connection with Pizzagate, where the authors alert their readers to videos claiming that Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin "had assaulted a girl and drank her blood–a conspiracy that proponents dubbed 'Frazzledrip'."
So they're focusing on the kind of material that any sane reader would find objectionable in the absence of evidence, which they do not provide. They snagged an interview from Sean of SGTReports ("the creator of one of the videos about Clinton and Abedin"), whose channel has been taken down at least once for "community guidelines" strikes:
“Their enforcement of their ‘community guidelines’ seems arbitrary and selectively enforced, to say the least,” said , in an email in which he identified himself by only his first name, Sean. “At worst, it’s punitive and targeted at speech they do not like.”
They try to make the case that Pizzagate shooter acted after seeing such videos, in an effort to show how objectionable they are. (Can you say, False Flag?)
The DIGG comes in regarding four sources they cite for some kind of "authoritarive" voice in backing up their claims:
* Data & Society (Joan Donovan)
* Network Contagion Research Institute
* AlgoTransparency (Guillaume Chaslot)
* Columbia University Tow Center for Digital Journalism (Jonathan Albright)
What do anons know about these groups & individuals?
Sauce:
https ://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/hateful-conspiracies-thrive-on-youtube-despite-pledge-to-clean-up-problematic-videos/2018/12/10/625730a8-f3f8-11e8-9240-e8028a62c722_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.55663b7b783b
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/john-podesta-pizzagate-766489/?