(Bloomberg) -- The nature of climate misinformation on Google-owned YouTube is evolving, according to a new report. Videos espousing climate denial are declining across nearly 100 YouTube channels, ...
YouTube's reduced tolerance for misinformation now extends to climate science. The Google service has enacted a new policy barring ads and monetization for content that contradicts the ...
The head of a House committee on climate change wants to know why videos espousing climate misinformation are pervasive on Google's YouTube, and indeed seem to be promoted by the company's ...
Adam McKay has launched the nonprofit Yellow Dot Studios to make videos and other materials aimed at raising public understanding of the climate emergency and related issues, following the viral ...
Content creators have spent the past five years developing new tactics to evade YouTube’s policies blocking monetization of videos making false claims about climate change, a report from a nonprofit ...
Over 18 months after YouTube pledged to demonetize climate change denial content, researchers say they found 100 videos that violate the policy and still feature ads. They said in a report that ads ...
When an ad runs on a YouTube video, the video creator generally keeps 55 percent of the ad revenue, with YouTube getting the other 45 percent. This system’s designed to compensate content creators for ...
YouTube has been “actively promoting” videos containing misinformation about climate change, a report released Thursday by campaign group Avaaz claims, despite recent policy changes by the platform ...
Students and adults all around the world came out in droves for the Global Climate Strike launched by Swedish teenager and climate activist Greta Thunberg. More than 4,000 events in 150 countries were ...
Greenpeace is not happy that its advertisements were found on YouTube videos featuring climate change denialism and misinformation. The environmental nonprofit on Thursday called on YouTube to change ...
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