In “60 Minutes” appearance, YouTube’s CEO offers a master class in moral equivalency

In “60 Minutes” appearance, YouTube’s CEO offers a master class in moral equivalency

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https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/01/in-60-minutes-appearance-youtubes-ceo-offers-a-master-class-in-moral-equivalency/

Susan Wojcicki may be one of the most powerful women in Silicon Valley, but she also holds the unenviable role of being ultimately responsible for a lot of garbage that we, along with our parents, siblings, friends, neighbors, colleagues, and children — not to mention billions of strangers — now consume on YouTube.

That garbage, along with valuable content, is inevitable on a platform that Wojcicki says sees 500 hours of video downloaded to the platform every single minute. But it doesn’t meant that YouTube can’t do more, particularly given the vast financial resources of its parent company, Alphabet, which had a stunning $117 billion in financial reserves as of this summer — more than any company on the planet.