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by 4werfaw34r 2637 days ago
Some of what's in the article seems to contradict what YouTube's product chief said in a recent interview.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19523415

The chief contradiction I see - The product chief claims youtube has been taking this problem seriously, while this report implies youtube has ignored the problem for some time, going as far as to avoid searching for videos to claim plausible deniability. According to the bloomberg article, YouTube was aware of the "bad virality" problem for sometime, but it was never addressed.