Content producers have begun to circumvent YouTube's rules, so Google continues to collect huge amounts of money from global warming deniers.
The British non-profit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) used artificial intelligence to analyze more than 12,000 YouTube videos from the past six years and found that content remains so strongly on the page that it defies scientific consensus. He writes the Reuters. These mainly include videos claiming that there is nothing we can do about climate change.
In 2021, Google withheld funds from YouTubers who contradicted the truth about climate change, but it seems deniers have found a new way to spread the word. But instead of clear denials, content has begun circulating on the video-sharing site declaring the ineffectiveness of human interventions, describing global warming as harmless and even beneficial in certain cases, or labeling climate science and the environmental movement as unreliable.
“The people we're looking at now aren't saying there's no climate change, they're saying, “Hey, there's climate change, but there's no hope.” “There are no solutions”CCDH CEO Imran Ahmed said.
According to the organization that fights hate speech, YouTube earns about $13.4 million annually through the channels analyzed in the report, through the ads that appear there. It is worth noting that according to the group, the AI model they used is designed to distinguish between reasonable doubt and misinformation.
