Is There a Scale Problem With Youtube?

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youtube.com is the perfect petri dish for this kind of stuff to grow, he says. The problem is dealing with it at this scale, versus dealing with it when they start out, is like orders of magnitude more difficultso in that appliance assumption,. one of my pushbacks there on google and u tubas like, so wit it wad storr, i cand o start as before. Lik there is a real scale probem ulae.

Ben and James discuss the question of YouTube, why it’s similar and different from Facebook, and why engagement is both alluring and a potential problem.

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Ben Thompson: YouTube and Toxic Videos, YouTube’s Problematic Incentives, Sins of Omission and Commission — Stratechery Daily Update
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