The world’s most popular video streaming platform, YouTube, continues to fight misinformation. The company, which fined the channels of institutions that shared fake news about Covid-19 a while ago, now waged a war on another problem. The social media giant, which takes climate change very seriously, has taken an important step.
Deciding to punish YouTubers who deny the current crisis, the company changed its monetization policies. After this decision, Adsense revenues of many channels and content producers will go. Here are the contents that are expected to be affected by Google’s new decision…
YouTube to fine YouTubers who deny climate change
Making a statement on the subject recently, Google explained the change it made to YouTube policies. Accordingly, the company will not welcome publishers’ content that contradicts well-established scientific ideas about the existence and causes of climate change. Videos that go against the consensus will be deprived of ad revenue.
Stating that videos describing climate change as a hoax, mislead people, the company claimed that YouTubers who deny this problem contribute to greenhouse gas and emission problems over time. Underlining that it will be very rigorous, the social media giant will use a series of automated tools and human reviews to enforce the policy.
However, not everyone who produces content in this area will be affected by the sanctions. The main difference between blocked and accepted video will be the style. In other words, people who voice this as an allegation and act in that way will not be affected by the sanctions. However, it remains to be seen how strictly this distinction will be controlled.
So what do you think about this subject? Has YouTube taken the right step towards tackling climate change, or has it just angered conspiracy theorists? You can share your views with us in the comments section.
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