# Paul Barrett, deputy director of the Center for Business and Human Rights, provides his recommendations for how YouTube can combat disinformation from spreading on the platform

1 School News July 18, 2019 ![BEME News logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/beme192x144.jpg?itok=nnnbiMQ9)>

Excerpt from [BEME News](https://youtu.be/Wb9UdWLgmUc?t=459) -- "Paul Barrett, deputy director of NYU Stern's Center for Business and Human Rights, told me that YouTube's preference for increasingly extreme content is a feature of the system, not a bug. He told me YouTube is in the advertising business, so they have a financial incentive to keep users engaged."

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