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Re:YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly co... by autokad on Thursday April 23, 2020 @07:08PM (#22962647)
do you think someone at google is saying: 'hmmm, I analyzed all the points and did fact checking and this video should be flagged'.

They'll have some lazily built ML algorithm that flags the whole channel with a video that mention 'corona' and demonitize them so they can collect money and benefit from the videos but not have to do any payout.

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Re:YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly co... by judge2020 on Thursday April 23, 2020 @07:11PM (#22962686)
Your scenario has already been playing out for about two months, except it's completely per-video and just a mention of corona seems to no longer cause a demonetization.

> so they can collect money and benefit from the videos but not have to do any payout.

No ads show on demonetized videos.

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Re:YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly co... by alexis_fr on Thursday April 23, 2020 @07:18PM (#22962740)
Youtube still profits from free content.
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Re:YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly co... by Cpoll on Friday April 24, 2020 @09:36PM (#22974817)
As far as I know, free content costs Youtube. I remember reading their profit margins aren't great even on monetized content, and hosting and bandwidth isn't free.
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