"Glitches"
Two big events in the social media-tech world went mostly unmentioned over the past weekend. On YouTube, a large number of channels covering the Russo-Ukraine War was demonetized without notice on Saturday morning . The link quotes Denys Davydov, one of those demonetized and a very prominent YouTuber, saying his channel was demonetized because it "exploits, dismisses, or condones the war". The YouTuber at the link says, So, his daily update videos were averaging about one million views -- one million views in one day -- this makes Denys Davydov one of the largest creators on YouTube, I'm not even joking. But he was entirely kicked out of the YouTube adsense, because he operates more than one channel. He also has the channel Pilot Blog that has over a million subscribers, has nothing to do with the war in Ukraine on this channel, this is his pilot and travel channel, and this was also demonetized. So, it wasn't the channel, it was Denys who was demonetized. Ano...