A Google executive told Congress that white nationalism had no place on YouTube, but its livestream was riddled with racist remarks.
Comments left on the YouTube livestream of the congressional hearing on the rise of white nationalism.Tuesday about hate crimes and the rise of white nationalism on social media platforms, where policy executives from Google and Facebook testified.
Meanwhile, commenters in the live chat alongside the YouTube livestream spewed hateful slurs and racist remarks about Jews and other minorities.Visit BusinessInsider.com for more storiesCongress' hearing on white nationalism started 15 minutes late on Tuesday, but even before it kicked off, people watching
were using the live chat feature located next to the video to share racist ideologies and use vitriol slurs.The House Judiciary Committee called policy executives from Facebook and Google to testify Tuesday as part of a series of hearings about hate crimes and the rise of white nationalism on social media.
Anyone who wanted to follow the proceedings live could tune in via The House Judiciary Committee's livestream on YouTube. But the live chat located next to the video was quickly inundated with offensive language and slurs about Jews, black people, and other minorities. Some commenters used the clown emoji, which white nationalists
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