Gaming Sites Are Still Letting Streamers Profit From Hate
To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. In today’s attention economy, platforms are megaphones and audiences are income. Shut off the megaphone and the income goes away. Bad guy go bye-bye. Throughout the last year, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and beyond have reckoned with their social responsibility not to amplify and monetize hate in what has become known as “the great deplatforming.” But what about when the megaphone is off and the cash keeps flowing in? A WIRED investigation has uncovered dozens of far-right and white supremacist figures who monetize or h...
Source: wired.com