YouTube is showing racist video, but not for anti-black and anti-Asian racism

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Google-owned YouTube removed a racist show from a widely followed conservative talk show, but not because of its content that mocked black people, made a joke about slavery, and linked death and coronavirus to restaurants Chinese.

Tuesday’s “Louder with Crowder” online show, which has more than 5 million subscribers and has featured Republican Senator Ted Cruz and former President Donald Trump’s son Donald Jr. included jokes between host Steven Crowder and his co-hosts about black farmers receiving $ 5 billion in the latest coronavirus stimulus package. Crowder began to poke fun at black speech and stereotypes of black culture, while another host made a supposedly humorous comment that agriculture was the “problem” for black people for hundreds of years. .

Take-out Chinese food containers were positioned on the set in front of a coronavirus mockup and next to the silhouette of a lying corpse.

Google, in response to a question from that news agency on Tuesday about why racist content was allowed to stay, said in an emailed statement that it had removed the video for violating its COVID disinformation policy , “which prohibits content claiming that COVID-19 death rates are less severe or just as severe as the common cold or the seasonal flu.”

Google added that the video was flagged by the platform’s content app system when it was uploaded and was immediately blocked from showing ads, which generate money for the channels. and Google. The company noted that it had previously removed videos from Crowder’s channel and that in June 2019, it had suspended its channel from running ads for a year. The sanction followed complaints from another media host that Crowder had targeted him for racist and homophobic abuse. Crowder was allowed to resume monetization of his videos via ads after he showed he was complying with YouTube policies, the company said on Tuesday.

Louder with Crowder did not immediately respond to questions about the racist content of Tuesday’s show or the show’s deletion.

Social media companies have long struggled to tackle abusive content and disinformation, with COVID, the recent presidential election and the January 6 insurgency on the U.S. Capitol putting them under increasing pressure to act. Google has banned Trump from YouTube indefinitely after his supporters insurgency. The company also banned the “War Room” channel and another channel of former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon after former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani made false allegations of electoral fraud during the election. ‘a live broadcast.

Google said last week that after banning false COVID vaccination claims in October, it deleted more than 30,000 YouTube videos. The company has removed more than 800,000 videos related to dangerous or misleading coronavirus information, a spokeswoman said.

Facebook has banned ads that discourage vaccines and told The Associated Press it has added warning labels to more than 167 million COVID-19 content highlighted by fact-checking partners, including the ‘AP. The company said this week that it has launched a “Vaccine Finder” tool in users’ Facebook and Instagram feeds, to provide links to government and drugstore websites so people can find nearby locations offering coronavirus vaccines.

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