Capitol Hill Hearing on Online Hate Sees It Firsthand
A congressional hearing on online hate turned into a vivid demonstration of the problem Tuesday when a YouTube livestream of the proceedings was bombarded with racist and anti-Semitic comments from internet users.
Alexandria Walden of Google LLC's Public Policy and Government Relations Counsel for Free testifies in Washington, D.C., on April 9.
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Washington (AP) -- A congressional hearing on online hate turned into a vivid demonstration of the problem Tuesday when a YouTube livestream of the proceedings was bombarded with racist and anti-Semitic comments from internet users.
YouTube disabled the live chat section of the streaming video about 30 minutes into the hearing because of what it called "hateful comments."