YouTube lets biggest stars off the hook for breaking rules, moderators say

Enlarge / San Bruno, California, USA - January 11, 2012: YouTube Headquarters, located at 901 Cherry Avenue in San Bruno. The video-sharing site was founded in 2005 by three former employees of PayPal. (credit: JasonDoiy | Getty)

If it feels like certain high-profile YouTubers get way more lenience when it comes to content moderation than everyone else does, that's apparently because they really do, according to a new report.

The Washington Post spoke with almost a dozen former and current YouTube content moderators, who told the paper that the gargantuan video platform "made exceptions" for popular creators who push content boundaries.

"Our responsibility was never to the creators or to the users," one former moderator told the Post. "It was to the advertisers."

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