While Facebook Gets Roasted, YouTube Stays in the Shadows

Posted Monday, April 23, 2018 8:03 am

Lucia Moses | Digiday

YouTube’s bad-content problem hasn’t gone away, but as the heat turns up on Facebook for data breaches, the spread of misinformation and Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, some say the Google-owned video platform has been overlooked.

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