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YouTube battles ISIS with a redirect strategy

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Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 25.7.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | marketing, politics, threat, YouTube
Summary | YouTube is redirecting people who search for extremist materials to videos that show the pain terrorism causes in order to act against new people getting radicalized. While this may be a useful strategy, it is problematic that this move was incited by companies. YouTube had been struggling with advertisers pulling their ads from controversial videos.
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