YouTube’s bad week: pedophiles, hate speech, and Steven Crowder

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 7 June 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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There was so much news this week that we had to add another Vergecast episode to cover it all. Besides Apple’s WWDC, the most important story in The Verge’s coverage has been the various crises YouTube is facing over its moderation policies — problems with hate speech and harassment, pedophiles on the platform, and white supremacist content. Verge editor-in-chiefand Vergecast co-hostNilay Patel invites Silicon Valley editor Casey Newton and senior reporter Adi Robertson to the show to explain what is happening on YouTube, how YouTube is handling it, and the outrage cycle surrounding it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sabotage hired goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:05.0	How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief
0:10.7	second life and then was buried for good.
0:14.8	Watch the Verges documentary Lisa's final act now on YouTube.
0:19.8	Hello and welcome to Vergecast, the flagship podcast of the Vox Media.
0:29.9	This is a little bit different week for us on the Vergecast.
0:35.5	There's just a lot going on.
0:37.5	This is actually a second episode of the Vergecast's chat show this week.
0:42.3	We did a really long episode recapping WWDC and all the Apple news with Deeter and Paul.
0:48.0	But I'm going to honest, there's like a ton of YouTube news happening and I personally
0:54.3	could not figure out how to talk about the Mac Pro in iOS dark mode against YouTube hate
0:59.7	speech policy in the same show.
1:02.2	We did the WWDC show.
1:03.4	That's out.
1:04.4	You can listen to it right now.
1:05.4	And then I ask Casey Newton.
1:06.4	Hi Casey.
1:07.4	Hey, me live.
1:08.4	And Adi Robertson.
1:09.4	Hi Adi.
1:10.4	Hey.
1:11.4	To join me so we could talk about what the hell happened with YouTube this week.
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