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A perfect example is Veritasium’s now deleted video about self driving cars. Entirely sponsored by Waymo, featuring exlusively data provided by Waymo (which coincidentally contradicted all other available data), and the guy acts like the video being fully sponsored means nothing. Once people called him out, he started acting like a victim targeted by everyone for no reason. Just read his comments under videos on the topic. It’s just pathetic. Many other channels, like Kurzgesagt, completely source their data from billionaire-sponsored websites like OurWorldInData. Sometimes the data matches other, more reliable and trustworthy sources, and other times it’s just plain made up. In addition to portraying various subjects from only one perspective, which, suspiciously, always seems to be the one that makes billionaires look better. YouTube videos about the two cases I mentioned: ‘Veritasium: A Story of YouTube Propaganda’ by Tom Nicholas ’How Kurzgesagt Cooks Propaganda For Billionaires’ by The Hated One