The Washington Post spoke with almost a dozen former and current YouTube content moderators, who told the paper that the gargantuan video platform "made exceptions" for popular creators who push content boundaries.
"It was to the advertisers.”
The employees told the Post in interviews that YouTube's internal guidelines for how to rate videos are confusing and hard to follow.
The difference status makes became clear in the first days of 2018, moderators said, when Logan Paul drew criticism for posing with and apparently mocking the body of a dead man in a video.
Two weeks passed before Google took any public action and removed Paul from the Google Preferred advertising program.
A few weeks later, Paul Tasered a dead rat in another video, again a violation of YouTube's guidelines against violent and graphic content.
