Complaints of spreading extremism against Google-owned YouTube
Video Sharing Web site in the ad-based business model. Here are three parties: Video creators, visitors and advertisers. This is the platform or service provider YouTube has brought together these three parties. YouTube has got a share of income, such as revenue from advertisements shown on the video. In this process, YouTube has been accused of repeatedly spreading extremist content. Earlier on the video, such as the promotion of extremist advertising, it has indirectly supported advertisements showing hate videos.
In the US media, CNN's findings show that advertisements for more than three hundred institutions in the YouTube channel are shown in the racist, extremist nationalist, Nazi, sex to children, slander YouTube channels. The criticism arrow is being thrown more than YouTube to those institutions. The YouTube channels owned by Google are unknowingly sponsored by Adidas, Amazon, Facebook, Hershey, Hilton, LinkedIn, Mozilla, Netflix, Nordstrom and Underarmo. The advertisements of five government agencies including the United States Department of Transport, the Department of Disease Control, are also shown in those channels.
After the CNN investigation, when these organizations and organizations were notified about their advertisements, they were not aware of it. After Understanding Arma, YouTube has stopped buying advertising on YouTube.
This is not the first such incident on YouTube. It has also been seen before showing advertisements of large organizations on extremist and controversial channels. As a result, many organizations closed their advertisements. Again, some of the companies started their advertising again after a break.
YouTube has again questioned the incident. How YouTube is adopting ethics towards advertisers and how much security ads are being offered.
Emarketar's senior analyst said that the solution is one way, and that is, as long as YouTube resolves the problem, the advertisements are closed.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for YouTube said, "When we came to know that advertisements are being shown out of our policies, we remove it." But he did not say anything about why this incident happened again and again.