YouTube’s ‘Intelligence Desk’ could screw legitimate creators

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by Sindy Cator on January 23, 2018 at 6:55 pm

Last week, Buzzfeed broke the news YouTube was building an “intelligence desk” to help head off potential disasters early. It’s a good idea, but it might cause more problems for YouTube’s content creators than it solves for the site itself. The “multi-pronged” early warning system would “bring together Google data, social media trends and third party expertise” to find problematic videos fairly soon after they’re uploaded. Said videos would be either removed, or YouTube would stop ads from running on them. It makes sense in the wake of the now-infamous Logan Paul Suicide Forest video, as one of the main…