YouTube’s hate speech problem is scaring off advertisers
AT&T has announced that it’s pulling ads from YouTube, thanks to worries that its commercials might end up running next to a video of some guy in a fedora and a Sonic The Hedgehog T-shirt preaching that his tens of subscribers should rise up and wipe out all the Jews. Per Deadline, a number of companies have recently gotten concerned about both the rise of racist, fascist, and other bad-ist content on the Google-owned video host, and the algorithms that could potentially stick their names and products right next to white nationalists or other hate-and-terrorism-associated groups.