Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If a channel produces a straight-news video that merely shows Trump making an unfounded election-related claim—perhaps during a speech, in an interview, or at a rally—YouTube would punish the channel as if the channel had made the claim, even if no one affiliated with the channel endorsed Trump's lies. Welcome to our new algorithmic future, brought to us by VCs and software engineering. Suppression of misinformatio…
>However building massively scaled platforms for information dissemination ensures that it will be done by robots with no judgement (either the machine kind, or poorly paid people following a script). The article makes it seem as if a human made the decision, not an algorithm. At the very least, humans came up with the policy and wrote the algorithms, and could override them if they wanted to.
Yeah, but to do that you need a humans with judgement and time to think, and that's expensive. I wouldn't be surprised if Youtube's human moderators are paid on production, and quite separate from whoever's writing the policies they execute.