{"id":350302,"date":"2018-03-01T07:36:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T06:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/youtube-secretly-using-splc-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-03-01T07:36:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T06:36:05","slug":"youtube-secretly-using-splc-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/youtube-secretly-using-splc-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Secretly Using SPLC – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Peter Hasson
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March 1, 2018<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Southern Poverty Law Center is assisting YouTube in policing content on their platform, The Daily Caller has learned.<\/p>\n

The left-wing nonprofit \u2014 which\u00a0has more recently<\/a>\u00a0come\u00a0under fire for labeling legitimate<\/a>\u00a0conservative organizations as \u201chate groups\u201d \u2014 is one of the more than\u00a0100 nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and government agencies in YouTube\u2019s \u201cTrusted Flaggers\u201d program, a source with knowledge of the arrangement told TheDC.<\/p>\n

The SPLC and other program members help police YouTube for extremist content, ranging from so-called hate speech to terrorist recruiting videos.<\/p>\n

All of the groups in the program have confidentiality agreements, a spokesperson for Google, YouTube\u2019s parent company,\u00a0previously told TheDC<\/a>.\u00a0A handful of YouTube\u2019s \u201cTrusted Flaggers,\u201d including the Anti-Defamation League and No Hate Speech \u2014 a European organization focused on combatting intolerance \u2014 have gone public with their participation in the program. The vast majority of the groups in the program have remained hidden behind their confidentiality agreements.<\/p>\n

The SPLC\u2019s close involvement in policing content on YouTube is likely to cause consternation among conservatives who worry that they may not be treated fairly. The left-wing group has consistently labeled pedestrian conservative organizations as \u201chate groups\u201d and has\u00a0been directly tied to violence against conservatives in the past. Floyd Lee Corkins, who opened fire at the Family Research Center in 2012, said he chose the FRC for his act of violence\u00a0because the SPLC listed them as a \u201chate group.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear when the SPLC…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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By Peter Hasson The Daily Caller March 1, 2018 The Southern Poverty Law Center is assisting YouTube in policing content on their platform, The Daily Caller has learned. The left-wing nonprofit \u2014 which\u00a0has more recently\u00a0come\u00a0under fire for labeling legitimate\u00a0conservative organizations as \u201chate groups\u201d \u2014 is one of the more than\u00a0100 nongovernment organizations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-350302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}