YouTube employees have admitted their goal was “viewer addiction” and shut down proposed safety tools for kids since they did not provide a sufficient return on investment, Thomas Barrabi of The New York Post reports, citing court documents reviewed by the journal. The records were unsealed ahead of a series of trials set for this summer in Oakland, California in the US District Court of Northern California. In a deposition in the case last march, VP of Engineering at YouTube John Harding was confronted by attorneys related to an email in which a YouTube employee state the “goal is not viewership, it’s viewer addiction.”
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