Despite few formal opportunities to participate in platform governance, social media creators use public callouts to shape community norms and place pressure on the platform.
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This systematic review explored 23 studies to establish whether the YouTube recommender system facilitates pathways to problematic content.
This paper analyses the aftermath of the advertiser revolt on YouTube to draw out the broader implications of the controversy as it relates to the algorithmic gatekeeping of culture. It argues that the event shows as never before that decisions about categorisation and classification of cultural content invariably affect the financial trajectory of the said content. It ends by calling for broader stakeholder participation within key decision-making processes of digital platforms.