(By Michael Brown) It all happened in the course of one night, and it happened quite suddenly. Last Thursday night, I noticed that YouTube demonetized my interview with a former KKK Grand Dragon who is now an associate pastor in an African- American church, claiming it was “Not suitable for all advertisers”? Why wouldn’t it be? It was a great, positive, redemptive story, one that the whole world should hear. Why flag it? The demonetizing of this video was the first thing that got my attention,
but I thought to myself, “It’s probably because it has KKK in the title.” For months now, we had noticed that almost any video we had with “Islam” in the title would get demonetized. But when we would request a review from YouTube, some of the videos would get reinstated. Still, we had seen a drop of more than 65 percent in our AskDrBrown YouTube income, despite producing more, not fewer, videos. What was causing this to happen? CONTINUE
