Is YouTube bad for us?
Channel: ReasonTV
Date: 2023-08-03

YouTube pulled in 2 million views a day following its launch in 2005. Today, it boasts more than 2.5 billion active monthly users and ranks second in global web traffic.

How has this massive video-sharing site affected us psychologically, culturally, and politically? These are the questions director Alex Winter explores in his new documentary The YouTube Effect.

Watch the conversation between Winter and Reason's Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller on YouTube or Facebook this Thursday at 1 p.m. ET. They'll talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly of YouTube; bipartisan calls for social media regulation; and what role YouTube may have played in the speech suppression campaign that occurred during the pandemic.

0:00 — Intro
1:30 — "The YouTube Effect” trailer
4:00 — What are the YouTube effects?
7:45 — What led to the meteoric ride of YouTube
11:00 — The first YouTube video
12:00 — The upsides to YouTube
17:15 — The negatives of YouTube
26:30 — Misinformation vs. Disinformation
31:20 — Susan Wojcicki at WEF22
40:30 — The impact of Section230 and content moderation