Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Dead at 56
The former CEO of Google-owned YouTube, Susan Wojcicki, died on Friday at the age of 56, following a two-year battle with lung cancer.
The former CEO of Google-owned YouTube, Susan Wojcicki, died on Friday at the age of 56, following a two-year battle with lung cancer.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki recently announced plans to step down as CEO and will be succeeded by the censorship-happy Neal Mohan. Wojcicki leaves a legacy of censoring independent creators and favoring corporate media.
Google-owned YouTube restored a viral video of a speech from the winner of the Italian election, Giorgia Meloni, claiming it was “mistakenly” removed from the platform. The speech went viral after Meloni’s win, but had been posted to the platform without problem since 2019.
Google-owned YouTube has announced major changes to its YouTube Partner Program, allowing creators to earn ad revenue on Shorts, the company’s short-form video content competitor to TikTok. The move signals a major shift by the internet giant to compete with Communist China’s powerhouse social media platform.
Well over a year since Joe Biden’s inauguration, Big Tech continues to take a zero-tolerance approach to claims of fraud in the 2020 election, with YouTube recently removing a video of a speech by former President Donald Trump discussing the issue at an event in Florida.
Google-owned video platform YouTube has reportedly blocked Duma TV, a channel that broadcasts from Russia’s lower house of parliament.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki recently urged world governments to pass stronger speech laws to restrict speech online deemed “harmful.” Her ominous message is that the path to “more control over online speech” is to pass laws that ignore the First Amendment.
Google-owned YouTube, the largest video hosting platform in the world, may potentially branch into NFTs, according to a letter sent by CEO Susan Wojcicki to the platform’s community.
The Google-owned video-sharing platform YouTube recently announced its decision to remove the “dislike” count on videos across its platform. Although the Masters of the Universe claim their motivation is “protecting creators,” YouTube itself has suffered from massive dislike counts on videos like its infamous “YouTube Rewind 2018,” the most disliked video in the history of the platform.
In a recent interview, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki stated that free speech is a “core value” of the video-sharing platform, just days after the Google-owned website announced it would be cracking down on any dissenting opinions relating to coronavirus vaccines.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki stated in a recent interview that she believes that the Google-owned video platform is actually beneficial to the mental health of its teenage users. Her statement comes in the wake of leaked Facebook internal documents showing the company has research on the toxic impact of its Instagram platform on teen girls.
Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of the Google-owned video-sharing platform YouTube, has received a “Free Expression” award from the Freedom Forum Institute in a virtual ceremony — sponsored by YouTube.
Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of Google-owned YouTube, said on Thursday that former President Donald Trump’s account on the platform will remain blacklisted until the “risk of violence has decreased,” adding that Trump’s channel could be permanently banned if he continues to violate the site’s policies after being unsuspended in the future.
British-born actor Sacha Baron Cohen wrote a mock PR statement for Google and YouTube containing his thoughts on why the tech giant should deny its services to former President Donald Trump, declaring that “freedom of speech is not freedom of reach.”
“Borat” star Sacha Baron Cohen is demanding that Google kick President Donald Trump off of YouTube, claiming that banning the president on all social media is necessary to save democracy.
YouTube has cancelled a video called ‘The Case Against The Lockdowns’ because it fails to support the WHO-approved narrative on coronavirus.
Google-owned YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki appeared on Brian Stelter’s CNN show, Reliable Sources, to discuss the kind of “misinformation” that YouTube is removing during the Chinese virus pandemic. The YouTube chief promised to remove “anything that would go against World Health Organization recommendations.”
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki stated in a recent interview with 60 Minutes that she limits the amount of time her children spend on YouTube. She also limits them to using the YouTube Kids app, which has repeatedly had trouble with inappropriate content in the past few years.
Leslie Stahl of CBS News’ 60 Minutes has released her interview with YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki. During the interview, the CBS reporter demanded to know why YouTube isn’t censoring more “hate speech” and “conspiracy theories.”
More than 300 of President Donald Trump’s political ads have taken down by Google and its video platform YouTube, mostly over the summer, according to a report by 60 minutes.
In a recent wide-ranging interview with The Guardian, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki discussed many issues faced by the Google-owned platform such as asking where she should “draw the lines of free speech?”