Hate speech fills comments of YouTube livestream of House hearing on hate speech on YouTube
As the House Judiciary Committees hearing on hate crimes and white nationalism began, the official YouTube livestream chat filled up with anonymous users making antisemitic and white supremacist slogans and remarks.
Jerrold Nadler, chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary, brought up a Washington Post article on the hate-filled livestream comments published earlier during the hearing.
Google, which owns YouTube, has a representative of its public policy team speaking as a witness at Tuesdays hearing.
While YouTube was able to shut down the official Congressional committee livestream, hate speech continued to be posted in unofficial livestream chats covering the hearing.
Along with witnesses from civil rights groups and conservative activists, Facebook also had a representative from its public policy team in attendance.
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