YouTube Makes Over $13 million off Climate Change Denial (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
from throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to technology@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 2024 08:51
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robocall@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 2024 09:05 next collapse

They should donate all that money to fighting climate change

Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works on 24 Feb 2024 12:54 collapse

Kind of breaks the agreement they made with the oil companies who pay this. Right the fuck on though cuz 13m ain’t shit to what oil companies can pay.

li10@lemmy.ml on 23 Feb 2024 09:18 next collapse

That’s like absolutely nothing to YouTube to be fair

deweydecibel@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 2024 13:07 next collapse

Also, “to be fair”, no one should be profiting of it period. Even $1 is a disgrace.

The fact there’s money to be made in denying or refusing to do anything about climate change is literally the primary cause for climate change to go unaddressed.

Profit created the problem, and profit maintains the problem.

HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 2024 18:42 collapse

It means something to me at least. Encourages use of Peer tube, revanced, new pipe, etc

bahcodad@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 2024 23:46 collapse

Out of peertube and new pipe, which would you recommend?

ICastFist@programming.dev on 24 Feb 2024 02:08 collapse

I recommend New Pipe. If you need/want to watch from a browser, go with Invidious

Avanera@kbin.social on 23 Feb 2024 11:09 next collapse

The hell is going on with this article, is this bot-written? The top-line reads that the CCDH are the ones running the analysis. But the very next line reads "Streaming Platform YouTube said they analysed over 12,000 videos across 96 channels using an AI model crafted specifically to be able to distinguish between reasonable scepticism and false information." So it kinda sounds like this should be titled "YouTube study investigates changes in climate denial rhetoric, finds deniers are succeeding at skirting older protections." and then go on to explain that the new model inherently identifies this problematic content.

Listen, I'm not a big fan of Google, but as written this is just a shitty hit piece arguing in favor of an activist group that seems to be calling on YouTube to do the thing they've just said they already did. Unless the claim is that YouTube just went "Huh, weird. Guess we'll keep making money on it anyways!" and there's proof of that, this feels pretty deliberately misleading.

thejml@lemm.ee on 23 Feb 2024 13:10 next collapse

Also, 12k videos is probably around a minute of typical content uploads. Seriously, in 2023, 500 Hours of content was uploaded to YouTube every minute. This is a minuscule study.

Johanno@feddit.de on 23 Feb 2024 15:47 collapse

They used 96 channels as a sample it seems. So they can show that the new algorithm works. I think this is probably not going as well as they make it seem. Probably you will now face the problem that the word climate change will demonetise your video.

Johanno@feddit.de on 23 Feb 2024 15:45 collapse

Yeah the CCDH is analysing youtube by reading the reports by YouTube itself.

The 96 channels were used to test the new algorithm???

RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 2024 20:00 next collapse

Title pretty much sums up why we’re screwed.

anarchotaoist@links.hackliberty.org on 24 Feb 2024 02:57 collapse

Cool. How much does it make on Global Warming alarism & fear?