Hello and welcome to Recode Media with Peter Kafka.

That is me. I'm speaking to you from the Code Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona.

We just kicked it off, and I just interviewed Susan Wageske, who is the CEO of YouTube.

This is a conversation we want to have in any circumstance, but given the events of the last week.

We're very grateful that we got to do it in front of a live audience, and you can listen to it right now for free. Thank you for coming. I'm really glad we get to have this conversation. I'm glad we get to do it in public on stage, on the record. That's great. Let's start here. There was a bunch of news last week. Some of it involved you, some of it involved

box.com where I work. There was a policy change. I think they all sort of happened at the same time.

Can we just walk through what happened if they were parallel tracks or they happened

if they were connected? Sure. So first of all, thank you. A lot of things happened last week

and it's great to be here and talk about what happened.

But I do want to start because I know that the decision that we made was very hurtful to the LGBTQ community.

And that was not our intention at all.

So you just set context for anyone who's not following this, what decision this was? Yeah, so let me, I'll go into that, but I thought it was really important to be upfront

about that and to say that was not our intention and we were really sorry about that.

But I do want to explain why we made the decision that we did as well as give information

about the other launch that we

had going on. So really, there were two different things that happened at the same time.

And, you know, the first one I'll talk with is we made a really significant change involving

hate speech. This is something we had been working on for months, and we launched it on Wednesday of last week.

This is a series of policy changes you've been rolling out for years.

So to just be clear, we've all, yes, so we've been making lots of different policy changes on YouTube.

We have made about 30 changes in the last 12 months,

and we made, this past week, we made a change in how we handle hate speech.

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