the-markup/investigation-youtube-ad-placements
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Data and code from our stories, "Google Has a Secret Blocklist that Hides YouTube Hate Videos from Advertisers—But It’s Full of Holes," and "Google Blocks Advertisers from Targeting Black Lives Matter YouTube Videos."
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As the methodology states, they compiled a list of 2,039 terms, and did the manual and automated preprocessing work to dedupe that list (the result of which seems to be here [0]). They subsequently vetted the final list in collaboration…
comment by danso · 2021-04-09 · in We Discovered Google’s Social Justice Blocklist for YouTube Ad Placements -
Their github repo has a link to further description on each hate term. Some are hate groups. Some are deliberate misinformation about marginalized groups. Some are phrases instead to sound non-offensive to a general audience, while edging…
comment by MereInterest · 2021-04-09 · in We Discovered Google’s Social Justice Blocklist for YouTube Ad Placements -
The story links to a Github repo [0] with code, input data, and several notebooks, as well as a lengthy methodology [1]. [0] https://github.com/the-markup/investigation-youtube-ad-place... [1] https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2021/04/…
comment by danso · 2021-04-09 · in We Discovered Google’s Social Justice Blocklist for YouTube Ad Placements