YouTube still displays ads on some climate change denial videos, researchers say
The researchers said that by the time they completed their research, YouTube had demonetized eight of the videos in the dataset. CAAD said the videos that were still monetized collectively had more than 71 million views.
Content moderation is a complex issue and some videos that violate YouTube policies will inevitably slip through the cracks. However, some of the climate change denial videos that CAAD found were on channels with more than a million subscribers. that the platform has removed ads from many of the videos identified by the researchers, including the one with thepromo.
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