Sustainability in Action: Who monitors human rights at YouTube?
Should YouTube simply broadcast everything its users upload, without oversight? Is a platform like Google allowed to publish anything?
Questions like these touch on several human rights issues - think of the spread of fake news and its consequences. Van Lanschot Kempen engaged with Alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube.
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