YouTube’s New Moderators Mistakenly Pull Right-Wing Channels

 

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YouTube’s new moderators, brought in to spot fake, misleading and extreme videos, stumbled in one of their first major tests, mistakenly removing some clips and channels in the midst of a nationwide debate on gun control.

The Google division said in December it would assign more than 10,000 people to moderate content after a year of scandals over fake and inappropriate content on the world’s largest video site.

In the wake of the Feb. 14 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, some YouTube moderators mistakenly removed several videos and some channels from right-wing, pro-gun video producers and outlets.

Some YouTube channels recently complained about their accounts being pulled entirely. On Wednesday, the Outline highlighted accounts, including Titus Frost, that were banned from the video site. Frost tweeted on Wednesday that a survivor of the shooting, David Hogg, is an actor. Jerome Corsi of right-wing conspiracy website Infowars said on Tuesday that YouTube had taken down one of his videos and disabled his live stream.

Shutting entire channels would have marked a sweeping policy change for YouTube, which typically only removes channels in extreme circumstances and focuses most disciplinary action on specific videos. But YouTube said some content was taken down by mistake. The site didn’t address specific cases and it’s unclear if it meant to take action on the accounts of Frost and Corsi.

“As we work to hire rapidly and ramp up our policy enforcement teams throughout 2018, newer members may misapply some of our policies resulting in mistaken removals,” a YouTube spokeswoman wrote in an email. “We’re continuing to enforce our existing policies regarding harmful and dangerous content, they have not changed. We’ll reinstate any videos that were removed in error.”

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CNN loses 30% of its primetime watchers

 

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Troubles continue to mount for Cable’s waning news network giant, as CNN’s viewership has dropped by nearly a third during peak-watching hours compared to last year – and by nearly a quarter of its viewers throughout the day.

“CNN … struggled relative to last year in prime time, [as] the network was -30 percent in total prime time viewers, and -23 percent in total day viewers from last year,” AdWeek.com revealed in its “Basic Cable Ranker” report for the week of February 5.

CNN torpedoed by Fox News and its own fake news

Numerous reasons have reportedly contributed to CNN’s ongoing downward spiral – with the latest being its praise and adulation of the dictatorial North Korean regime while covering the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.

“Massive layoffs, a cancerous fake news crisis and the humiliating (and expensive) implosion of its digital platform, appear to be the least of CNN’s problems,” Breitbart News reported. “The viewership problems for the anti-Trump outlet are breathtaking – especially when compared to its competition.”

The ultra-left-leaning CNN did not even make the top 10 for Cable’s prime time viewership, registering at a meager average of only 888,000 viewers, while the conservative Fox News ranked number one and tripled its liberal rival with 2,605,000 watchers – walloping the second-ranked progressive MSNBC (1,747,000 viewers) by nearly a million.

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Newsweek Unraveling; Dozens Of Journalists Bail As Fraud Probe Heats Up

 

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Newsweek appears to be in much deeper trouble than previously thought in a wide-ranging fraud probe by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, according to the Wall Street Journal.

A suspicious loan application from Newsweek’s parent company two years ago helped trigger the probe into suspected bank fraud, advertising fraud, and ties between parent company Newsweek Media Group and a California bible college.

The publication’s New York offices were raided on January 18 in connection with the probe, while dozens of employees and three top executives have left the publication amid its rapid unraveling. Editors, meanwhile, went nuclear on a Newsweek executive in a leaked call earlier this month.

During the 90 minute recorded meeting between CCO Jonathan Davis and editors, Davis was repeatedly asked about alleged criminal behavior by parent company Newsweek Media Group.

“So you should be honest with everybody in this room: Are we running a money laundering operation? Are we evading taxes? You need to tell us that because we can’t work here if you’re a liar.” –Daily Beast

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