YouTube Exec Says Goal Was Viewer Value Not Addiction
Naija News • 5d ago
A landmark social media addiction trial resumed Monday with a YouTube executive insisting that the Google-owned company’s aim was to give people value, not hook them on harmful binge-viewing.
YouTube vice president of engineering Cristos Goodrow was pressed to defend the company’s self-styled “big, hairy, audacious goal,” set more than a decade ago, to increase viewer time to more than a billion hours a day by 2016.
As he did last week when Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg testified in the same Los Angeles court, plaintiff’s attorney Mark Lanier told jurors that Goodrow’s compensation climbed with his company’s share price, meaning he profited personally from ramping up user engagement.
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