Carr Accuses YouTube of Enabling Chinese Propaganda After Automation Flaw
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr took aim at YouTube Tuesday night after reports the platform has been accidentally deleting comments critical of China’s Communist Party. Carr accused the platform of enabling propaganda: YouTube “has no problem providing a platform for Communist…
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China propaganda. ... Yet it draws a line on the comment section of a conservative publication in America.” YouTube enforcement systems didn’t take the “proper context into account” and “incorrectly removed the comments,” a Google spokesperson emailed Wednesday. “When we were made aware of this issue, we quickly investigated and are rolling out fixes for these terms as quickly as possible.”