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The journalist Rocco Castoro, ex-Editor in Chief of Vice.com, has been working on a story about this for a while.

Roughly, and I might be misquoting here, what is now known is as follows:

1. The YouTube.com engineering team and internal Google networks are separate from most of the company and maintained by different engineers (for the most part).

2. There seems to be some internal investigation going on at Google as to whether engineers in the Los Angeles Playa Vista office of YouTube (the 440,000 sq feet Howard Hughes hangar from WWII just north of LAX) were accepting bribes.

3. These bribes were coming from ad fraud organized crime groups who were making money by making the YouTube apis and botnet detection algorithms less secure than they could be.

4. Because the YouTube division of Google was posting massive jumps in revenue and profit, the division was never looked into until recently as all was going well.

NOTE: I'm a former PSO Google Engineer (the GCP outside consultants that Google brings on to help customers onboard to GCP), so I am knowledgeable in this area.

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Care to provide any reference? This seems outlandish and Google doesn't provide anything to confirm what you just said.