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LOS ANGELES: Singer Selena Gomez has called out YouTube recently for playing a role in the spread of false reports and rumours.
The singer has always been vocal about the risks of social media and the spread of misinformation on the platforms. Turning to Twitter, she retweeted a tweet from Imran Ahmed, CEO of Center for Countering Digital Hate and Stop Funding Fake News.
“READ: @YouTube funds hate and extremism by allowing live donations on videos containing misinformation and lies. Worse, *they take a cut*. This is no way to build a business, @sundarpichai and @SusanWojcicki,” wrote Ahmed.
Commenting on that, Gomez further wrote, “I love @YouTube and put a music video on there the other day… how can this be happening? I don’t want my fans or anyone to be funding hate or violence.”
Earlier, Gomez had criticsed Facebook for ‘spreading lies’ about the COVID-19 vaccine. The Rare hitmaker turned to her Twitter and criticized Facebook for the disinformation running rampant on its platform about the COVID-19 vaccine.
“Scientific disinformation has and will cost lives. @Facebook said they don’t allow lies about COVID and vaccines to be spread on their platforms. So how come all of this is still happening? Facebook is going to be responsible for thousands of deaths if they don’t take action now!” she wrote in a post.