Bloomberg reporter Bergen to write book on YouTube

• He adds that people are increasingly interested in understand the technologies that are deeply shaping their internet lives — making YouTube and its video recommendation algorithm prime subjects to dive into.
• YouTube, like its peers, is wrestling with questions of free speech and governance of the internet.
• YouTube is also a potential target of the growing antitrust probes into Big Tech, a topic Bergen says will be a ‘fun question’ to explore through his reporting. (Though he adds he doesn’t believe breaking YouTube off from Alphabet-Google would ever happen.)

“The big picture: Bergen’s book is the latest in a long list of projects in the last year or so chronicling the tech industry’s bad behavior and reckoning with the dark side of its influence.”

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