YouTube found 'no interference' from Russia during Brexit vote
YouTube says that it hasn't found any evidence of Russian interference during the UK's Brexit vote in 2016. Members of parliament aren't satisfied, however, and are asking for the video network to examine clips of Russian origin, not just ads, according to The Guardian . For its part, YouTube says it will do a more comprehensive review. "There is no constraint on the resources we will put into getting this right," YouTube's global head of public policy Juniper Downs said. Google's video wing has 10,000 people examining and filtering offensive videos and is spending a boatload of cash ("tens of millions") on the effort -- which one member of parliament estimated to be around 0.1 percent of YouTube's $10 billion in ad revenue. The sticking point for Parliament was YouTube's auto-play feature that queues successive videos on the platform. A recent investigation by The Guardian found that the algorithm used favored "extreme and se...